Sinclair mckays book is the first history for the general reader of life at bletchley park, and 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. Read the secret life of bletchley park the ww11 codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there by sinclair mckay available from rakuten kobo. The author concentrates more on the people who worked there and the life they led rather than the scientific aspects of how the enigma and other codes were broken. Bletchley park, imitation game, alan turin, enigma, lorenz, secets revealed, code breakers, wwii, first computer, computer inventor. The secret life of bletchley park by sinclair mckay book.
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