The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war (Dialogue Espionage Classics) - Softcover

Michael Smith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849540950 ISBN 13: 9781849540957

Publisher: Biteback Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.

No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of the codebreakers themselves, Smith now provides the definitive account of everything that happened at Bletchley Park during the war, from breaking the German, Italian and Japanese codes to creating the world's first electronic computer. The familiar picture of Bletchley Park is of eccentric elderly professors breaking German codes, but in fact the vast majority of people who worked at Bletchley Park were young women. For them and for the young graduates plucked from Britain's best universities who did the bulk of the day-to-day codebreaking, this was truly the time of their lives. The Secrets of Station X tells their story in full, providing an enthralling account of one of the most remarkable British success stories of all time.

About this title

From the Author:

This book contains the most up-to-date history of Bletchley Park with the latest information from the national archives on what happened at Bletchley and what effect it had on the war. It naturally contains some of the same quotations from codebreakers that were used in Station X, my previous history of Bletchley Park, but is a completely new book which is 50 per cent longer than Station X, corrects some of the earlier misinformation surrounding the codebreakers and really is the better of the two books.

About the Author:

Michael Smith is the bestselling author The Secrets of Station X, The Spying Game and Foley among others. He is an award-winning journalist who has worked for the BBC, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. He lives in Oxfordshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1849540950
• ISBN 13: 9781849540957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336