Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780330419291)

In 1939, several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes. Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma code used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all the odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his guards.

Author: Michael Smith
ISBN-10: 0330419293
ISBN-13: 9780330419291
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2004
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.55d