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Author:
Briggs, Asa, 1921-2016.
Title:
Secret days : code-breaking in Bletchley Park / Asa Briggs.
Publisher:
Frontline Books,
Copyright Date:
©2011
Description:
xix, 202 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plan, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Subject:
Briggs, Asa,--1921-2016.
Great Britain.--Government Communications Headquarters--History.
Great Britain.--Government Code and Cypher School--History.
Briggs, Asa,--1921-2016
Great Britain.--Government Code and Cypher School.
Great Britain.--Government Communications Headquarters.
Lorenz cipher system.
World War, 1939-1945--Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Electronic intelligence--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)--History.
Cryptography.
Electronic intelligence.
Lorenz cipher system.
Secret service.
England--Bletchley Park.--Bletchley Park.
Great Britain.
Dechiffrierung
Weltkrieg--1939-1945
Bletchley Park--Bletchley
Großbritannien
1939-1945
Erlebnisbericht.
History.
Personal narratives--British.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
BP : an introduction -- Cambridge -- Getting inside BP -- The huts ... and hut six in particular -- Two camps ... and more -- Ways of escape -- The end of the war -- Getting outside BP -- Oxford -- The Bletchley trust.
Summary:
"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.
ISBN:
1848326157
9781848326156
OCLC:
(OCoLC)745430005
Locations:
CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

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