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Author: Chuck Markley Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1638600732 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 101
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Terry Martin, a seventy-four-year-old Army Major, is living out a comfortable retirement in an assisted living home. He hates it! He had a successful twenty-plus year career as an infantry officer and years on the Army Staff as a Computer Scientist. But a peaceful existence is not what he was looking for. Imagine his surprise when he was recalled to active duty and assigned to the Pentagon. Given a seemingly useless research project, he cannot find out why he is there. After two months of researching old World War II documents, he is transported into 1941 England. MAJ Martin finds himself at Bletchley Park made famous by Alan Turing and the Enigma machine. He meets some of the same spies and code breakers that he has studied about for decades. His life is pleasantly complicated by a captivating young British Naval Officer, Sarah Sanderson. His sudden appearance in the past has created a cloud of suspicion around him. Terry needs to earn the trust of Sarah Sanderson and the British government. He will need to summon up all his bravery, critical thinking, leadership ability, and luck to survive and complete his mission.
Author: Chuck Markley Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc. ISBN: 1638600732 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 101
Book Description
Terry Martin, a seventy-four-year-old Army Major, is living out a comfortable retirement in an assisted living home. He hates it! He had a successful twenty-plus year career as an infantry officer and years on the Army Staff as a Computer Scientist. But a peaceful existence is not what he was looking for. Imagine his surprise when he was recalled to active duty and assigned to the Pentagon. Given a seemingly useless research project, he cannot find out why he is there. After two months of researching old World War II documents, he is transported into 1941 England. MAJ Martin finds himself at Bletchley Park made famous by Alan Turing and the Enigma machine. He meets some of the same spies and code breakers that he has studied about for decades. His life is pleasantly complicated by a captivating young British Naval Officer, Sarah Sanderson. His sudden appearance in the past has created a cloud of suspicion around him. Terry needs to earn the trust of Sarah Sanderson and the British government. He will need to summon up all his bravery, critical thinking, leadership ability, and luck to survive and complete his mission.
Author: Peter Hore Publisher: Greenhill Books ISBN: 1784385824 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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A captivating history of the highly secret group of women who helped win the Second World War. The World War II codebreaking station at Bletchley is well known and its activities documented in detail. Its decryption capabilities were vital to the war effort, significantly aiding Allied victory. But where did the messages being deciphered come from in the first place? This is the extraordinary untold story of the Y-Service, a secret even more closely guarded than Bletchley Park. The Y-Service was the code for the chain of wireless intercept stations around Britain and all over the world. Hundreds of wireless operators, many of them who were civilians, listened to German, Italian and Japanese radio networks and meticulously logged everything they heard. Some messages were then used tactically but most were sent on to Station X—Bletchley Park—where they were deciphered, translated and consolidated to build a comprehensive overview of the enemy’s movements and intentions. Peter Hore delves into the fascinating history of the Y-service, with particular reference to the girls of the Women’s Royal Naval Service: Wrens who escaped from Singapore to Colombo as the war raged, only to be torpedoed in the Atlantic on their way back to Britain; the woman who had a devastatingly true premonition that disaster would strike on her way to Gibraltar; the Australian who went from being captain of the English Women’s Cricket team to a WWII Wren to the head of Abbotleigh girls school in Sydney; how the Y-service helped to hunt the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic, and how it helped to torpedo a Japanese cruiser in the Indian Ocean. Together, these incredible stories build a picture of World War II as it has never been viewed before. “We get to see how the work of individual Wrens helped in such operations as the interception and sinking of the Bismarck, the Slapton Sands disaster, several naval battles (Channel Dash, Matapan, etc.), the ongoing small warship clashes in coastal waters, convoy defense, and more. A good read for anyone interested in the naval side of the war in Europe or in the role of women in military service.” —The NYMAS Review “Will reward a patient reader with a remarkably intimate view into the lives and times of these hidden heroes.” —Naval Historical Foundation
Author: David Kenyon Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030024357X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 339
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The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it. Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment, but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war's turning point--the Normandy Landings in 1944--had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley's vital contribution to success in Normandy, and ultimately, Allied victory.
Author: Michael Smith Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9780330419291 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 236
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In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park, known as 'Station X', where enemy codes were deciphered. This title details their remarkable achievements.
Author: David A. Price Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0525521542 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer—decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age. • Winner, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Middleton Award for "a book ... that both exemplifies exceptional scholarship and reaches beyond academic communities toward a broad public audience." • A Kirkus Best Book of 2022 • Planning the invasion of Normandy, the Allies knew that decoding the communications of the Nazi high command was imperative for its success. But standing in their way was an encryption machine they called Tunny (British English for “tuna”), which was vastly more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma cipher. To surmount this seemingly impossible challenge, Alan Turing, the Enigma codebreaker, brought in a maverick English working-class engineer named Tommy Flowers who devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that would calculate at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman, Flowers and his team produced—against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership—Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. Drawing upon recently declassified sources, David A. Price’s Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the full mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus and chronicles the remarkable feats of engineering genius that marked the dawn of the digital age.
Author: Tessa Dunlop Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 1444795732 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 525
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'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail 'An in-depth picture of life in Britain's wartime intelligence centre...The result is fascinating, and is made all the more touching by the developing friendships between Dunlop and her interviewees.' Financial Times The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of fifteen women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War wasn't matched in any other country. From 8 million working women just over 7000 were hand-picked to work at Bletchley Park and its outstations. There had always been girls at the Park but soon they outnumbered the men three to one. A refugee from Belgium, a Scottish debutante, a Jewish 14-year-old, and a factory worker from Northamptonshire - the Bletchley Girls confound stereotypes. But they all have one common bond, the war and their highly confidential part in it. In the middle of the night, hunched over meaningless pieces of paper, tending mind-blowing machines, sitting listening for hours on end, theirs was invariably confusing, monotonous and meticulous work, about which they could not breathe a word. By meeting and talking to these fascinating female secret-keepers who are still alive today, Tessa Dunlop captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult world of war, secrecy, love and loss. Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers, it's the story of the girls behind Britain's ability to consistently out-smart the enemy, and an insight into the women they have become.
Author: Dermot Turing Publisher: Arcturus Publishing ISBN: 1839404744 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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'Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache.' - Michael Smith, bestselling author of Station X. At Bletchley Park, some of Britain's most talented mathematicians, linguists, and intellectuals were assembled to break Nazi codes. Kept secret for nearly thirty years, we have now come to realise the crucial role that these codebreakers played in the Allied victory in World War II. Written by Dermot Turing - the nephew of famous codebreaker Alan Turing - this illustrated account provides unique insight into the behind-the-scenes action at Bletchley Park. Discover how brilliant and eccentric individuals such as Dilly Knox, Alan Turing and Joan Clarke were recruited, the social life that grew up around the park, and how they dealt with the ever-present burden of secrecy. Including a foreword by Professor Christopher Andrew of Cambridge University, author of MI5's official history The Secret World, this book brings to life the stories of the men and women who toiled day and night to crack the seemingly unbreakable enigma code.
Author: C. Smith Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137484934 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 245
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This book is a 'hidden' history of Bletchley Park during the Second World War, which explores the agency from a social and gendered perspective. It examines themes such as: the experience of wartime staff members; the town in which the agency was situated; and the cultural influences on the wartime evolution of the agency.
Author: Everest Media, Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 52
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Jessie Jordan, a German woman, was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in February 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in July 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves. #2 A German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in February 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves. #3 A German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm, in 1937. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves. #4 In 1937, a German woman named Jessie Jordan was recruited by the Abwehr, the German intelligence arm. She had been abandoned by her father, William Ferguson, and had met a German waiter, Karl Friedrich Jordan, while working as a chambermaid in Dundee in 1907. They fell in love and married five years later. Jordan died on the Western Front in 1918, leaving her and their four-year-old daughter to fend for themselves.
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