{"product_id":"the-secret-life-of-bletchley-park","title":"The Secret Life Of Bletchley Park","description":"\u003cp\u003eBletchley Park was where one of the wars most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germanys \"Enigma\" code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britains most brilliant mathematical brains  like Alan Turing  and the scene of immense advances in technology - indeed  the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. But  though plenty has been written about the boffins  and the codebreaking  fictional and non-fiction - from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges biography of Turing - what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war? What was life like for them - an odd  secret territory between the civilian and the military?Sinclair McKays book is the first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park  and an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties - of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson  the novelist  once threw himself in) - of a youthful Roy Jenkins  useless at codebreaking  of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels - and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each others work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44955564146741,"sku":"ByrdShop_1781314071","price":86.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781781314074.jpg?v=1770311489","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-life-of-bletchley-park","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}