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by B. Jack Copeland and others (Author) "The story of the Enigma cipher machine and its defeat by the Bletchley Park codebreakers astounded the world ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (23 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 019284055X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192840554
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.7 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 89,581 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare. (Nature )

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5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable part of the wartime jigsaw, 31 May 2006
This book contains numerous articles written by some of those invisible people who actually took part in this top secret project. Some of the accounts are those of frustration, from people not allowed to get the recognition that they and their colleagues deserve. The level of detail and understanding shown makes this a very interesting and unique picture. I would recommend it without hesitation. Their ability to inject humour in the most serious of stories gives you some idea of the luck and good fortune that resulted in the most important achievements.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bletchley Park books, 1 Sep 2007
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A very interesting book written by those who were involved. Much easier to read than Paul Gannon's book as it is personal rather than historical from documents. A very interesting book and I can thoroughly recommend it.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!, 26 April 2006
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Couldn't put it down. You are lectured by some of the worlds greatest scientists, who undoubtably save the western world from the Nazis; it is written with humour and in excellent style. What fortune that the release of this classified information was just in time (but only just) to allow contributions from those who really 'won the war'. The repetition of how Colossus worked by its many contributors allows non-techies to really understand what it did, and how the first computer was British not American! Da Vinci code - eat your heart out!
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