Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
Language: English
Published by Channel 4 Book, 1998
- Hardcover
- Used
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- Title
- Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
- Author
- Smith, Michael [Editor]
- Publisher
- Channel 4 Book
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0752221892
- ISBN 13
- 9780752221892
- Item weight
- 16 ounces
- Dimensions
- 9x5x0
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.
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