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Action This Day [Hardcover]

Michael Smith (Editor), Ralph Erskine (Editor)

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Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press; 1st Edition edition (28 Oct 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0593049101
ISBN-13: 978-0593049105
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 4.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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‘Peppered with priceless anecdotal and technical detail. Fascinating stuff’

Louis Kruh, Editor, Cryptologia

'Absolutely the best book ever written about codebreaking at Bletchley Park.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent addition to the Bletchley Park literature., 10 Nov 2001

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This well-edited collection of articles is an excellent addition to the growing literature on Bletchley Park's codebreaking achievements. There is a good deal of previously unpublished information and some interesting personal memoirs. There are summary articles that help place the wartime codebreaking triumphs in a much broader and more balanced perspective than earlier publications, and others that give some overdue recognition to contributions from organizations other than the better-known Enigma- and Tunny-breaking operations. The book also helps locate Bletchley's wartime achievements within a wider pre- and post-war context. Readers unfamiliar with the Bletchley Park story might want to read "Codebreakers" by Hinsley and Stripp as a prelude to "Action This Day".

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