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Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Description
It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb. As March discovers the identity of the body, he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich. And, with the Gestapo just one step behind, March, together with an American journalist, is caught up in...
4) Enigma
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2009
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Description
March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. As suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend suddenly disappears.
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The stories of Bletchley Park and the spies of the Second World War are well known, but it was Room 40 and their colleagues across the intelligence services that started it all. From the docks of New York City to shady Cairo hotels, this is the gripping and fast-paced story of spies, codebreakers and saboteurs.
6) Pyramid
Author
Publisher
Thorpe, Isis
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict - especially after she received a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey that takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a deeply sinister organisation determined to stop them, can Catherine...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room 40 & MI1(b) - remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major events of that war. From first Battle of the Marne, the shelling of Scarborough, the Battles of Jutland and the Somme in 1916, the first 'Battle of Britain', the 'Zimmermann Telegram', to the Battles of...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Using recently declassified information, this is the untold story of Bletchley Park - the invention of the world's first true computer: Colossus, which revealed key information about the Third Reich strategy and high command structures. Publication ties in with the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII.
Author
Publisher
Lion
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The story of the World War 2 de-coders of Bletchley Park continues to fascinate. How did Mair Thomas, a musician brought up in the Welsh valleys, find herself in the rarefied atmosphere of Hut Six, surrounded by hundreds of others, all desperately trying to break the German Enigma Code? This captivating memoir unpacks her daily life and explores the relationships she built.
Author
Publisher
Aurum
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Bletchley Park in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in technology, like the birth of modern computing. This book tells the story of what it was like to work there during the war.
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Series
Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Bletchley Park in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in technology, like the birth of modern computing. This book tells the story of what it was like to work there during the war.
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Description
Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which will go on to shape their roles forever.
Author
Publisher
Greenhill
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Bletchley Park was home to the most famous code breakers of the Second World War. The codebreakers had tremendous success in defeating, amongst others, the Luftwaffe's AuKa codes. In this book, Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of the German Air Section.