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| The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There |  | Author: Sinclair McKay
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
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Rating:  13 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.4
ISBN: 1845135393
EAN: 9781845135393
Publication Date: May 20, 2010
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 10
 Review September 2, 2010
A. Rumble (London)
I bought this for my father-in-law as a birthay present and he is throughly enjoying it.
I visited Bletchly Park myself recently and found it fasinating.
 bletchley August 30, 2010
misterloz
This is an interesting enough book but a bit of a hotch potch in the way its put together and written. Exactly who the main characters were and more about their contributions and how the code breaking developed would have made it better
 Wonderful August 26, 2010
David Cranson (Birmingham, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A wonderfully written and insightful account of the life and work that went on at Bletchley Park, before and during the war.
It is doubtful - in this day and age - that such work - in such basic circumstances would ahve survived un-noticed - although obviously things have brown and become much more complex these day - per GCHQ.
The people, the thoughts and the hard work involved in these earlier days of code breaking come off the page as living memories. These people were - until comparitively recently - he unsung heroes and heroins of WWII. The hard work and endeavour that they put in - with little or no public support - is outstanding. The long hours, the shifts. Dealing with 'intellectuals' who were - in modern day terms at least - on the brink of a nearvous breakdown and liable to have 'eureka' moments at the drop of a hat. The un-nerving knowledge that these people had at their fingertips, the secrecy adn absolute hush-hush atmosphee that surrounded the place.
What come across most tho' is the pride - in the correct sense of the word - that these people had in the work that they were doing. From the typists and messangers up to the cryptographers and academics. They were not only doing it for Britain, but they were doing it for the people of Britain, and for the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen in whose hands their lives sometimes depended.
There are storie of pure luck, of leaps of ingenuity. Stories of love and fierce fallouts and anger between friends of longstanding.
Stories of people arriving at a small railway station, seemingly in the middle of nowhere, in the pitch black, no-one arround and only brief directins of how to go from the station to the house. Stories of people travelling from as far afield as Inverness - having never left Scotland before - to people of more 'respectable' circles. Deutauntes, Oxbridge scholars, chess champions. Wrens and other military personnel put to a use which they never thought possible.
Yet there is an informality which comes from the story also. no uniforms were worn - whcih - at least initially - seemed to bamboozle the more died-in-the-wool milatary people. People met their future wives and husbands. People who would not have met at all had it not been for Bletchley Park.
This is a book about love and about hardwork. A book brilliantly written about those to whom we must for ever give our thanks. Without these people we might not have the freedom(s) we so readily take for granted these days.
Very much recommended to those who enjoy a good yarn, and to those who are fascinated with Bitish history. Even if you are not a historian or find hostory dry and dull - this book will pull you along with the real-life happenings of these ordinary - and sometime extraordinary - people who did all the codebreaking in secret and never told a soul about it.
Wonderful.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park August 25, 2010
Gerry (UK)
A well written and easy book to read. A real eye opener. How did they manage to keep Bletchley Park such a secret during the ward, nobody knew for example that so many people were involved in Bletchely Park during 1940 to 1945. Also reading between the lines, it helps you to understand why some strange political decisions were made during and after world war two. I enjoyed this book.
life of the grafters August 24, 2010
Barry M. Davies (Lincs. England)
For history buffs this is a very good new perspective on the code breakers life at Bletchley.secrecyandhardwork
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