Michael Smith

Broschiertes Buch

Bletchley Park

The Code-Breakers of Station X

Beschreibung

Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. This book contains photographs showing them at work and play. It explains how their work influenced the battle against Nazi Germany and its Italian and Japanese allies.

Autor

Michael Smith is the author of the bestseller 'Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park' (Channel Four, 1998) and a number of other books on the work of Britain's wartime codebreakers, including 'The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers' and 'The Bletchley Park Codebreakers', which he co-edited with Ralph Erskine. He has worked as a journalist for the BBC, the Daily Telegraph, and most recently the Sunday Times. He is a member of the board of the Bletchley Park Trust and the main adviser to the Trust on the work of the code-breakers.

Produktdetails

• Shire Library
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 56
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 146mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780747812159
• ISBN-10: 0747812152
• Artikelnr.: 36675116