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Originally posted by DS23 View Posti can get the titles - i know there are loads. i just wanted a shortcut to the best. too many of them say they are "the best" when in all likelihood they are not.
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Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret by Paul Gannon - pretty good. Not too difficult to read. £25 in hardback.
Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers by Jack Copeland et al. £18.99 in h/b... more difficult to read and some of it is quite technical.
Both the above are not about "Enigma" as such, but about the Lorentz machine.
The Battle for the code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. About the origins of the Enigma machine, breaking the machine by the Poles, then by BP. Breaking naval Enigma. Pretty comprehensive. Good book.
Bletchley Park people by marion Hill. Title sums it up. Ok ish.
The Ultra Secret. The inside story of Operation Ultra, Bletchley Park and Enigma by F. W. Winterbotham. The original 1974 book updated in 1999. Devoid of the techinical details of the later books. Ok.
The Hut Six Story by Gordon Welchman. Goes into somewhat tedious detail about codebreaking and he got his security clearance revoked for writing it... Ok.
Capturing Enigma by Stephen harper - the real story of "U571", actually U559. Puts the record straight... ok.
Station X by Michael Smith, the book of the C4 series. OK to good.
Unravelling Enigma by maurice Freedman... Ok.
The Searchers. Radio Intercept in Two world wars. by Kenneth Macksey.
Tells the story of the Y stations without which Station X (BP) would have been useless. Good if you like wirelesses.
Seizing the Enigma by David Kahn. Quite interesting. OK. He's written books on codes & cyphers.
The Enigmatic Sailor by Alan Peacock. Personal story of someone in the navy in WWII involved with Enigma. Sort of. Ok ish.Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostStation X by Michael Smith, the book of the C4 series. OK to good.
It was going cheap in a remaindered books place.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostI've got that one
It was going cheap in a remaindered books place.Comment
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Tony Sale, the chap who rebuilt Colossus in BP, gave a lecture for the IET at Swansea Uni a couple of weeks ago...
I almost changed the habit of a lifetime to go & listen to him.
That would have made two IET meetings I've attended in 29 years if I had...Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI am off to be - night
BP post number 8888
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostGosh.
Tonight's CSI NY is all about 2nd life...
There's a thing.Comment
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