Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park

Edited by Hinsley, F H and Stripp, Alan

ISBN 10: 0198203276 / ISBN 13: 9780198203278

Published by Oxford University Press, 1993

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Type: Book pp xxi, 321.

Seller Inventory # 018270

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198203276
• ISBN 13: 9780198203278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • British History and Politics

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Synopsis

This is a colourful and authentic account of daily life and work at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history.
By 1942 the codebreakers of Bletchley Park and its out-stations were breaking some 4,000 German signals a day, and almost as many from Italy and Japan, eavesdropping on enemy communications up to the highest levels of command. Their colleagues used these decrypts to produce Ultra intelligence which gave a detailed, accurate, and up-to-date picture of enemy strengths, weaknesses, and intentions. The codebreakers' contribution to the war effort was invaluable: Churchill described them as the `secret weapon' that `won the war'.

For the first time a group of the men and women who worked on this top-secret enterprise have combined to write their story in full. Here, they vividly describe their recruitment and training, their feelings and activities, and recall in detail their successes and failures.

About the Author

F.H. Hinsley was formerly Master of St John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the four-volume history British Intelligence in the Second World War.

Alan Stripp is Director of Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services.