The Bletchley Park Codebreakers

Michael Smith

• Éditeur: Biteback Publishing
• Année: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781849546232
• Sujet: Politique et relations internationales
• Sous-sujet: Intelligence et espionnage

The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. This extraordinary book, originally published as Action This Day, includes descriptions by some of Britain s foremost historians of the work of Bletchley Park, from the breaking ofEnigma and other wartime codes to the invention of modern computing, and its influence on Cold War codebreaking. Crucially, it features personal reminiscences and very human stories of wartime codebreaking from former Bletchley Park codebreakers themselves. This edition includes new material from one of those who was there, making The Bletchley Park Codebreakers compulsive reading.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Praise
• Title
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• DRAMATIS PERSONAE
• 1: BLETCHLEY PARK IN PRE-WAR PERSPECTIVE
• 2: THE GOVERNMENT CODE AND CYPHER SCHOOL AND THE FIRST COLD WAR
• 3: REMINISCENCES ON THE ENIGMA
• 4: BREAKING AIR FORCE AND ARMY ENIGMA
• 5: HUT 6 FROM THE INSIDE
• 6: BREAKING ITALIAN NAVAL ENIGMA
• 7: A BIOGRAPHICAL FRAGMENT: 1942–5
• 8: AN UNDERVALUED EFFORT: HOW THE BRITISH BROKE JAPAN’S CODES
• 9: SOLVING JN-25 AT BLETCHLEY PARK: 1943–5
• 10: MOST HELPFUL AND CO-OPERATIVE: GC&CS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC CRYPTANALYSIS, 1941–2
• 11: BREAKING GERMAN NAVAL ENIGMA ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC
• 12: HUT 8 FROM THE INSIDE
• 13: BLETCHLEY PARK AND THE BIRTH OF THE VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP
• 14: MIHAILOVIĆ OR TITO? HOW THE CODEBREAKERS HELPED CHURCHILL CHOOSE
• 15: TRAFFIC ANALYSIS: A LOG-READER’S TALE
• 16: BLETCHLEY PARK, DOUBLE CROSS AND D-DAY
• 17: HOW DILLY KNOX AND HIS GIRLS BROKE THE ABWEHR ENIGMA
• 18: BREAKING TUNNY AND THE BIRTH OF COLOSSUS
• 19: COLOSSUS AND THE DAWNING OF THE COMPUTER AGE
• 20: ENIGMA’S SECURITY: WHAT THE GERMANS REALLY KNEW
• 21: FROM AMATEURS TO PROFESSIONALS: GC&CS AND INSTITUTION-BUILDING IN SIGNALS IN TELLIGENCE
• 22: COLD WAR CODEBREAKING AND BEYOND: THE LEGACY OF BLETCHLEY PARK
• 23: BLETCHLEY PARK IN POST-WAR PERSPECTIVE
• APPENDIX I
• APPENDIX II
• APPENDIX III
• APPENDIX IV
• APPENDIX V
• APPENDIX VI
• APPENDIX VII
• NOTES AND REFERENCES
• GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• Plates
• Copyright
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