I thought that I was well informed about the history of Bletchley Park, I was totally wrong, until I read this book. It was great to learn through the tales of people who actually lived through this era what really happened. The book answered many of my questions including why there is still so ...
This book was very well written but challenging to get through. The true story of young men and women breaking code outside of London during WWII is extremely interesting to me. Using German, mathematics and engineering, the workers tried to interpret messages sent by the German Enigma machine....
‘There were some pretty ferocious internal squabbles too.’ As 1942 dawned, some of these internal pressures were finally to erupt. While it enjoyed the untrammelled and deep admiration of Churchill, the quasi-academic atmosphere of Bletchley Park was not otherwise viewed outside with universal ap...