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Author McKay, Sinclair, author.

Title The lost world of Bletchley Park : an illustrated history of the wartime codebreaking centre / Sinclair McKay.

Publication Info. London [England] : Aurum, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  940.5486 M192l 2013    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Description 191 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm
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Contents The House and Grounds -- Conversion to Codebreaking Factory -- The Cryptologists -- The Girls, the Pearls and the Musical Sergeants -- The Machines that Changed the Future -- Off-Duty Hours and the Pressure Valves -- Bletchley the Wartime Town -- The Worldwide Listeners -- Bletchley Park's Famous Faces -- Broken Codes and the Course of History -- What the Codebreakers did Next -- Bletchley After the War -- Rescue and Renovation -- Royals, Dignitaries -- and James Bond.
Subject Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Electronic intellegence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History.
ISBN 9781781311912 (hbk)
1781311919 (hbk)
9781781312797 (electronic bk.)
1781312796 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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