The secret lives of codebreakers
Subtitle: the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park
By: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780452298712
Subjects: Cryptography; Electronic intelligence; Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters; History
Description: A remarkable look at the day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II.
Notes: Previous ed.: The secret life of Bletchley Park : the WWII codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there / Sinclair McKay, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reporting for duty; title: 1938-39: The school of codes; title: 1939: Rounding up the brightest and the best; title: The house and the surrounding country; title: 1939: How do you break the unbreakable?; title: 1939-40: The Enigma initiation; title: Freezing billets and outdoor loos; title: 1940: the first glimmers of light; title: 1940: inspiration and intensity; title: 1940: The coming of the bombes; title: 1940: Enigma and the Blitz; title: Bletchley and the class question; title: 1941: The Battle of the Atlantic; title: Food, booze and too much tea; title: 1941: The wrens and their larks; title: 1941: Bletchley and Churchill; title: Military or civilian?; title: 1942: Grave setbacks and internal strife; title: The rules of attraction; title: 1943: A very special relationship; title: 1943: The hazards of careless talk; title: Bletchley and the Russians; title: The cultural life of Bletchley Park; title: 1943-44: The rise of the colossus; title: 1944-45: D-Day and the end of the war; title: 1945 and after: The immediate aftermath; title: Bletchley's intellectual legacy; title: After Bletchley : the silence descends; title: The rescue of the Park.