Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

ISBN 10: 0752221892 / ISBN 13: 9780752221892

Published by Channel 4 Book December 1998, 1998

About this Item

Small tear on back of dust jacket near barcode.

Seller Inventory # 68810

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
• Publisher: Channel 4 Book December 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752221892
• ISBN 13: 9780752221892
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

Station X tells the true story of the amazing achievements of the codebreakers working at Bletchley Park in the Second World War.
In 1939 several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes.
Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma cypher used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his generals.
Station X is also the story of the people involved from leading codebreakers such as Alan Turing, father of the modern computer, to the female operators who intercepted the messages.

About the Author

Michael Smith writes on espionage for the Daily Telegraph where he is a senior reporter.