Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the wars most famous and crucial achievements was made the cracking of Germany s Enigma code in which its most important military communications were couched. It was home to some of Britains most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. But, though plenty has been written about the boffins, and the codebreaking, fictional and nonfiction from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges biography of Turing what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them an odd, secret territory between the civilian and the military? This is the first oral history of life at Bletchley Park, an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in) of a youthful Roy Jenkins, useless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each others work.

Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Quarto Publishing Plc IWUK; Classification: HBJD1; Weight: 390 g; Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 22

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