'Briggs is an engaging and amiable guide though the mysteries of wartime cryptography ...a fascinating account of an outstanding young man and his time at a quite remarkable institution.' Roger Moorhouse in BBC History magazine Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley Park. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ...
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'Briggs is an engaging and amiable guide though the mysteries of wartime cryptography ...a fascinating account of an outstanding young man and his time at a quite remarkable institution.' Roger Moorhouse in BBC History magazine Lord Briggs has long been regarded as one of Britain's most important historians. However, until the publication of this remarkable book, he had never written about his time at Bletchley Park. Briggs himself did not tell his wife about his wartime career until the 1970s and his parents died without ever knowing about their son's contribution to the war effort. In this meticulously researched account he finally reveals the details of his life in Hut Six working as a codebreaker alongside Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman. In addition to discussing the progress of the Allies' codebreaking efforts and its impact on the war, Lord Briggs considers what the Germans knew about Bletchley and how they reacted to revelatory memoirs about the Enigma machine, which were not published until the 1970s. Packed with fascinating anecdotes, this is the gripping, revelatory story of an extraordinary young man in an extraordinary place.
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1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (small tear at top edge of upper cover-otherwise VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 202, illus with coloured and b&w photos (no inscriptions).
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Frontline Books, 2011. First UK edition-first impression. Black hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, two small dents on the edges of the cover) with Dj (two small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with colour, b/w photos, drawings, diagrams. Nice and clean pages as new with two small nicks on the edges of the pages, small ink mark inside the front endpaper. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover. 214oo including List of plates, glossary and abbreviations, selective chronology, index. Price un-clipped.
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