Secret days
Subtitle: code-breaking in Bletchley Park
By: Asa Briggs
Publisher: Frontline Books; Pen & Sword Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781848326156
Subjects: Weltkrieg; Cryptography; British Personal narratives; Electronic intelligence; Dechiffrierung; Secret service; Lorenz cipher system; World War, 1939-1945; Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters; Great Britain. Government Code and Cypher School; Great Britain; History
Other titles: Code-breaking in Bletchley Park; Codebreakingint Bletchley Park
Description: "The Bletchley Park memoir of Lord Asa Briggs will be one of the most important documents to be published in 2010. Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. He has never, however, written about his time at Bletchley Park. The publication, which will coincide with Lord Briggs 90th birthday, is a meticulously researched account of life in Hut Six, written by a codebreaker who worked there for five years alongside Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. In addition to discussing the progress of the Allies'code-breaking efforts and their impact on the war, Lord Briggs considers what the Germans knew about Bletchley and how they reacted to revelatory memoirs about the Enigma machine which were not published until the 1970s. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ever knowing their son's contribution to the wartime effort. The book will be launched at Bletchley in May 2011, in the presence of other Hut 6 veterans and part of the proceeds will be donated to the fund to restore Hut 6 to its former glory."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: BP : an introduction; title: Cambridge; title: Getting inside BP; title: The huts ... and hut six in particular; title: Two camps ... and more; title: Ways of escape; title: The end of the war; title: Getting outside BP; title: Oxford; title: The Bletchley trust.