Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives
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Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives
Book Details
- Author
- Sinclair McKay
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Great Britain
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781781315347
- ISBN-10
- 1781315345
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ISBN: 1781315345
Author: McKay, Sinclair
Condition: New
This beautifully presented slipcased collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, to its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum.Removable memorabilia includes:1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing's nameChurchill's 'Action this day' letter giving code breakers extra resourcesHandwritten Turing memosTop Secret Engima decryptions, about the sinking of the Bismark, German High Command's assessment of D-Day threat and the message announcing Hitler's suicideA wealth of everyday items such as authentic theatre posters, a map of Bletchley Park, canteen menus, teleprinter print-outs of codes, the Colossus paper tape spooled through machinesNewly redesigned interiors with 25% new content, high end slipcase package featuring removable facsimile documents, this is an essential purchase for everyone interested and wanting to experience the place where code-breaking helped to win the war.
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