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This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in technology indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. McKay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people who were once its habitants of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other’s work.
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Sinclair McKay writes for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. His other works include The Man With the Golden Touch: How the Bond Films Conquered the World and A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films.
"A remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered, and how it all felt at the time" —Guardian
"A truly breathtaking, eye-opening book" —Reader's Digest
"A truly breathtaking, eye-opening book" —Reader's Digest
"An eloquent tribute to a quite remarkable group of men and women" —Mail on Sunday
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- Publication date2011
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology - indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa.But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction - from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing - what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them - an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military?Sinclair McKay's book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties - of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) - of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels - and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work. The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781845136338
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