Codebreakers

Tom Greenwell, Yorkshire Post it is an exciting story they have to tell.

Nature ... because of its intense secrecy, the work of the men and women at Bletchley received no public recognition for many years after the war, and many of those who made important contributions are no longer alive.This volume of personal recollections by some 30 of the survivors is ... especially welcome. Conditions of life and work at Bletchley, and its principal achievements, are faithfully sampled in Codebreakers, which is worth reading both for its historical interest and for the sidelights it throws on the problems encountered in the rapid assembly and organization of one of the greatest collections of talent that has ever occurred in Western civilization.

Surveillant This unique volume will be of great interest to cryptologists in particular, and intelligence buffs in general.

Daily Telegraph While some of the chapters are so technical that Stella Rimmington would struggle to unscramble them, one still gets a strong sense of the excitement and frustrations of a war fought on the airwaves.

Sunday Times the anecdotal material is fascinating in the insight it gives into everyday life at the institution.

Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday Hinsley and Stripp have assembled 30 reminiscers - most geniuses, a few slaves, all highly informative.

David Hall,Oxford Times it is a remarkable tribute to the men and women who worked to crack the Germans' Enigma code.

Times Higher Education Supplement The most interesting thing about this collection of essays is the light it throws on the personalities concerned.

The Observer These essays on the diverse activities at Bletchley Park (which remained secret until the 1970s) are enthralling.

Madeleine Burton, Hitchin Gazette What makes Codebreakers so absorbing is that it has been written by the men and women who worked at Bletchley Park, all of whom were forbidden to talk about their work at the time. Codebreakers gives a fascinating insight into their daily lives.

Daily Telegraph ... one gets a strong sense of the excitement and frustrations of a war fought on the airwaves.

The Marine Society Interesting stuff.

John Farquharson, Canberra Times This book has been put together from the personal memories of people none of whom would now be under 65. That they are so readable attests to the skill of the editors, who were themselves part of the Bletchley operation. Above all, it highlights the painstaking effort that intelligence work demands; but, as this volume shows, intelligence is useless there is force and a willingness to take advantage of it.

Howard, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Air Power History This new book is the first full account of Bletchley written by those who worked there. The book is superbly edited by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, Expositions are lucid and understandable to the layman - a considerable achievement. The...

<br>F.H. Hinsley was formerly Master of St John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of the four-volume history British Intelligence in the Second World War. <br>Alan Stripp is Director of Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services.<br>

INTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF ULTRA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR; PART ONE. THE PRODUCTION OF ULTRA INTELLIGENCE; 1. Life in and out of Hut 3; 2. The Duty Officer, Hut 3; 3. A naval officer in Hut 3; 4. The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part I; 5. The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part 2; 6. Italian naval decrypts; 7. Naval Section VI; 8. Anglo-American signals intelligence co-operation; 9. An American at Bletchley Park; 10. Bletchley Park, the Admiralty, and naval Enigma; PART TWO. ENIGMA; 11 11 The Enigma Machine; 12. Hut 6: Early Days; 13. Hut 6: 1941-1945; 14. Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 1; 15. Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 2; 16. The Abwehr Enigma; 17. The bombes; PART THREE. FISH; 18. An Introduction to Fish; 19. Enigma and Fish; 20. The Tunny Machine; 21. Operation Tunny; PART FOUR. FIELD CIPHERS AND TACTICAL CODES; 22. Recollections of Bletchley Park, France, and Cairo; 23. Army Ultra's Poor Relations; 24. Navy Ultra Poor Relations; 25. Tactical signals of the German Airforce; PART FIVE. JAPANESE CODES; 26. Japanese naval codes; 27. Bedford-Bletchley-Kilindini-Colombo; 28. Japanese military codes; 29. Japanese Army Air Force codes at Bletchley Park and Delhi; 30. Recollections of temps perdu at Bletchley Park; APPENDIX. HOW THE BLETCHLY PARK BUILDINGS TOOK SHAPE