The secrets of station X : how the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war
2011
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The story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze. No one is better placed to tell the story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller 'Station X' was one of the earliest accounts. When the British military commandeered Bletchley Park in 1939 no one would have guessed that by 1945 its inmates would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. A melting pot of Oxbridge dons and maverick oddballs worked night and day at Station X to decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for high-level communications. That they succeeded, changing the course of the war, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, as World War II segued into the Cold War.
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Imprint:
London : Biteback, 2011
Collation:
328 p., [16] p. of plates ill., ports. 20 cm
ISBN:
9781849540957 (paperback)
Dewey class:
940.5486940.548
Local class:
940.5486
Language:
English
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BRN:
1909083