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- Paperback
- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9781845136338
- Book Title
- Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
- Item Length
- 5.1in
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group UK
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback, Book, Other
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Item Width
- 7.9in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 368 Pages
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Bletchley Park was where one of the warOCOs most famous OCo and crucial OCo achievements was made: the cracking of GermanyOCOs OC EnigmaOCO code in which its most important military communications were couched.This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to BritainOCOs most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology OCo 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 OCo from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew HodgesOCO biography of Turing OCo what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them OCo an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military?Sinclair McKayOCOs 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 OCo of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) OCo of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels OCo and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each otherOCOs work.Pre-order the new book, Secret Listeners, by Sinclair McKay. Published on October 4, 2012.Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machineOCOs code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recording by OC the Listening ServiceOCO - the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war: Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus, as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat."
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Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group UK
ISBN-10
1845136330
ISBN-13
9781845136338
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109096537
Product Key Features
Book Title
Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There
Format
Trade Paperback, Book, Other
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
History
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.1in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
7.9in
Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D810.C88
Publication Date
2011-08-25
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It is their stories, and the humbling thought of what their dedication to duty achieved, that make this book worth reading. ****, 'Mckay has succeeded in honouring a genuinely remarkable group of people in a solid, often entertaining and above all warm-hearted way.', 'McKay's book is an eloquent tribute to a quite remarkable group of men and women, whose like we will not see again.' Four stars ****, History for the General Reader of Life at Bletchley Park: an Amazing Compendium of Memories., "A remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered, and how it all felt at the time" —Guardian, 'amazing Compendium of First-Hand Memories', '...meticulously researched and unstintingly readable account...It's a fascinating and educational read from the opening page to the last.', 'It is their stories, and the humbling thought of what their dedication to duty achieved, that make this book worth reading.' Four stars ****, '...this book seems a remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered, and how it all felt at the time...', 'a Telling and Fascinating Account of an Extraordinary War', I Found this a Truly Breathtaking, Eye-Opening Book., A tremendously interesting and detailed book providing an insight into the brilliant minds who worked in absolute secrecy, McKay's book is an eloquent tribute to a quite remarkable group of men and women, whose like we will not see again. - ****, "A Truly Breathtaking, Eye-Opening Book" --Reader's Digest, 'Intriguing oral history...with an anecdotal style McKay offers new insights into what life was like at the famous station', "An Eloquent Tribute to a Quite Remarkable Group of Men and Women" --Mail on Sunday, 'it Is All So Indelibly-And Movingly-British.' Five Stars *****, "A remarkably faithful account of what we did, why it mattered, and how it all felt at the time"--Guardian
Copyright Date
2011
Dewey Decimal
940.548641
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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