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For Winston Churchill the men and women at Bletchley Park were 'the geese the laid the golden eggs', providing important intelligence that led to the Allied victory in the Second World War. At the peak of Bletchley's success, a total of twelve thousand people worked there of whom more than eight thousand were women. These included a former ballerina who helped to crack the Enigma Code; a debutante working for the Admiralty with a direct line to Churchill;...
2) The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park
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A Remarkable Look at the Day-to-Day lives of the Codebreakers whose Clandestine Efforts Helped Win World War II
Bletchely Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School-and the site where Germany's legendary Enigma code was finally cracked. There, the nation's most brilliant mathematical minds-including Alan Turing, whose discoveries at Bletchley...
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2021.
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"Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But...
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At the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Commander Joe Rochefort and his team cracked the Japanese navy's coded messages about a planned assault on Midway Atoll. In spite of his success, Rochefort was removed from his post at Pearl Harbor because of his inability to conform to the expectations of his superiors in Washington, who rejected his Midway prediction. Drawing on interviews with family members, officers, and enlisted men, this biography examines...
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Penguin Press
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2020.
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"Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf. Gellman took his own path. Snowden and his...
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