The Bletchley Park Codebreakers (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

by Ralph Erskine (Editor), Michael Smith (Editor)

Other authors: Rolf Noskwith (Contributor)

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This book tells the full history of Bletchley Park, tracing its legacy from the innovative work which led to the breaking of Enigma and other wartime codes to the invention of modern computing and its influence on Cold War codebreaking.

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An interesting account of both life at Bletchley Park as well as techniques used to break some non - Enigma codes and cyphers. The emphasis here is not on famous people, such as Turing, but rather on those working "in the trenches." Also included is a history of British code breaking between the two world wars as well as during the Cold War. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Erskine, Ralph	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Smith, Michael	Editor	main author	all editions	confirmed
Noskwith, Rolf	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Action This Day: From the Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer

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2001 (with original title)

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Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

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World War II (1939 | 1945)

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This book tells the full history of Bletchley Park, tracing its legacy from the innovative work which led to the breaking of Enigma and other wartime codes to the invention of modern computing and its influence on Cold War codebreaking.

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