Codebreakers

The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-280132-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 196 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

With many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this is the first authentic account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. Described by Churchill as the 'secret weapon' that 'won the war', the men and women of Bletchley Park here combine to write their story in full.

This book gives fascinating insights into recruitment and training, together with a full and accurate account of codes and ciphers and how they are broken.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinsley, F H

Stripp, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction. The Influence of Ultra in the Second World War

- Part One. The Production of Ultra Intelligence

- 1: William Millward: Life in and out of Hut 3

- 2: Ralph Bennett: The Duty Officer, Hut 3

- 3: Edward Thomas: A naval officer in Hut 3

- 4: Alex Dakin: The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part I

- 5: Walter Eytan: The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part 2

- 6: Patrick Wilkinson: Italian naval decrypts

- 7: Vivienne Alford: Naval Section VI

- 8: Telford Taylor: Anglo-American signals intelligence co-operation

- 9: Robert M. Slusser: An American at Bletchley Park

- 10: F.H. Hinsley: Bletchley Park, the Admiralty, and naval Enigma

- Part Two. Enigma

- 11 11: Alan Stripp: The Enigma Machine

- 12: Stuart Milner-Barry: Hut 6: Early Days

- 13: Derek Taunt: Hut 6: 1941-1945

- 14: Joan Murray: Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 1

- 15: Rolf Noskwith: Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 2

- 16: Peter Twinn: The Abwehr Enigma

- 17: Diana Payne: The bombes

- Part Three. Fish

- 18: F.H. Hinsley: An Introduction to Fish

- 19: Jack Good: Enigma and Fish

- 20: Ken Halton: The Tunny Machine

- 21: Operation Tunny

- Part Four. Field ciphers and tactical codes

- 22: Henry Dryden: Recollections of Bletchley Park, France, and Cairo

- 23: Noel Currer-Briggs: Army Ultra's Poor Relations

- 24: Christopher Morris: Navy Ultra Poor Relations

- 25: Peter Gray Lucas: Tactical signals of the German Airforce

- Part Five. Japanese codes

- 26: Michael Loewe: Japanese naval codes

- 27: Hugh Denham: Bedford-Bletchley-Kilindini-Colombo

- 28: Maurice Wiles: Japanese military codes

- 29: Alan Stripp: Japanese Army Air Force codes at Bletchley Park and Delhi

- 30: Carmen Blacker: Recollections of temps perdu at Bletchley Park

- Appendix. How the Bletchly Park buildings took shape

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Harry Hinsley was formerly Master of St John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge.

Alan Stripp is Director of Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services