The Bletchley Park Codebreakers
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The Bletchley Park Codebreakers

  1. 512 pages
  2. English
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The Bletchley Park Codebreakers

About this book

The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. This extraordinary book, originally published as Action This Day, includes descriptions by some of Britain s foremost historians of the work of Bletchley Park, from the breaking ofEnigma and other wartime codes to the invention of modern computing, and its influence on Cold War codebreaking. Crucially, it features personal reminiscences and very human stories of wartime codebreaking from former Bletchley Park codebreakers themselves. This edition includes new material from one of those who was there, making The Bletchley Park Codebreakers compulsive reading.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  7. 1: BLETCHLEY PARK IN PRE-WAR PERSPECTIVE
  8. 2: THE GOVERNMENT CODE AND CYPHER SCHOOL AND THE FIRST COLD WAR
  9. 3: REMINISCENCES ON THE ENIGMA
  10. 4: BREAKING AIR FORCE AND ARMY ENIGMA
  11. 5: HUT 6 FROM THE INSIDE
  12. 6: BREAKING ITALIAN NAVAL ENIGMA
  13. 7: A BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENT: 1942–5
  14. 8: AN UNDERVALUED EFFORT: HOW THE BRITISH BROKE JAPAN’S CODES
  15. 9: SOLVING JN-25 AT BLETCHLEY PARK: 1943–5
  16. 10: MOST HELPFUL AND CO-OPERATIVE: GC&CS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CRYPTANALYSIS, 1941–2
  17. 11: BREAKING GERMAN NAVAL ENIGMA ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC
  18. 12: HUT 8 FROM THE INSIDE
  19. 13: BLETCHLEY PARK AND THE BIRTH OF THE VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
  20. 14: MIHAILOVIĆ OR TITO? HOW THE CODEBREAKERS HELPED CHURCHILL CHOOSE
  21. 15: TRAFFIC ANALYSIS: A LOG-READER’S TALE
  22. 16: BLETCHLEY PARK, DOUBLE CROSS AND D-DAY
  23. 17: HOW DILLY KNOX AND HIS GIRLS BROKE THE ABWEHR ENIGMA
  24. 18: BREAKING TUNNY AND THE BIRTH OF COLOSSUS
  25. 19: COLOSSUS AND THE DAWNING OF THE COMPUTER AGE
  26. 20: ENIGMA’S SECURITY: WHAT THE GERMANS REALLY KNEW
  27. 21: FROM AMATEURS TO PROFESSIONALS: GC&CS AND INSTITUTION-BUILDING IN SIGNALS IN TELLIGENCE
  28. 22: COLD WAR CODEBREAKING AND BEYOND: THE LEGACY OF BLETCHLEY PARK
  29. 23: BLETCHLEY PARK IN POST-WAR PERSPECTIVE
  30. APPENDIX I
  31. APPENDIX II
  32. APPENDIX III
  33. APPENDIX IV
  34. APPENDIX V
  35. APPENDIX VI
  36. APPENDIX VII
  37. NOTES AND REFERENCES
  38. GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
  39. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  40. INDEX
  41. Plates
  42. Copyright
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