Introduction. The Influence of Ultra in the Second World WarF.H.
Hinsley:
Part One. The Production of Ultra Intelligence
1: William Millward: Life in and out of Hut 3
2: Ralph Bennett: The Duty Officer, Hut 3
3: Edward Thomas: A naval officer in Hut 3
4: Alex Dakin: The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part I
5: Walter Eytan: The Z Watch in Hut 4, Part 2
6: Patrick Wilkinson: Italian naval decrypts
7: Vivienne Alford: Naval Section VI
8: Telford Taylor: Anglo-American signals intelligence
co-operation
9: Robert M. Slusser: An American at Bletchley Park
10: F.H. Hinsley: Bletchley Park, the Admiralty, and naval
Enigma
Part Two. Enigma
11 11: Alan Stripp: The Enigma Machine
12: Stuart Milner-Barry: Hut 6: Early Days
13: Derek Taunt: Hut 6: 1941-1945
14: Joan Murray: Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 1
15: Rolf Noskwith: Hut 8 and naval Enigma, Part 2
16: Peter Twinn: The Abwehr Enigma
17: Diana Payne: The bombes
Part Three. Fish
18: F.H. Hinsley: An Introduction to Fish
19: Jack Good: Enigma and Fish
20: Ken Halton: The Tunny Machine
21: Operation Tunny
Part Four. Field ciphers and tactical codes
22: Henry Dryden: Recollections of Bletchley Park, France, and
Cairo
23: Noel Currer-Briggs: Army Ultra's Poor Relations
24: Christopher Morris: Navy Ultra Poor Relations
25: Peter Gray Lucas: Tactical signals of the German Airforce
Part Five. Japanese codes
26: Michael Loewe: Japanese naval codes
27: Hugh Denham: Bedford-Bletchley-Kilindini-Colombo
28: Maurice Wiles: Japanese military codes
29: Alan Stripp: Japanese Army Air Force codes at Bletchley Park
and Delhi
30: Carmen Blacker: Recollections of temps perdu at Bletchley
Park
Appendix. How the Bletchly Park buildings took shapeBob Watson:
Sir Harry Hinsley was formerly Master of St John's College and Professor of the History of International Relations in the University of Cambridge. Alan Stripp is Director of Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services
`it is an exciting story they have to tell.'
Tom Greenwell, Yorkshire Post
`... 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.'
Nature
`This unique volume will be of great interest to cryptologists in
particular, and intelligence buffs in general.'
Surveillant
`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.'
Daily Telegraph
`the anecdotal material is fascinating in the insight it gives into
everyday life at the institution.'
Sunday Times
`Hinsley and Stripp have assembled 30 reminiscers - most geniuses,
a few slaves, all highly informative.'
Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday
`it is a remarkable tribute to the men and women who worked to
crack the Germans' Enigma code.'
David Hall,Oxford Times
`The most interesting thing about this collection of essays is the
light it throws on the personalities concerned.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`These essays on the diverse activities at Bletchley Park (which
remained secret until the 1970s) are enthralling.'
The Observer
`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.'
Madeleine Burton, Hitchin Gazette
`... one gets a strong sense of the excitement and frustrations of
a war fought on the airwaves.'
Daily Telegraph
`Interesting stuff.'
The Marine Society
`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.'
John Farquharson, Canberra Times
`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. There are good photographs
including those of Enigma cipher machines. Altogether, this is a
splendid book for military historians, operational planners and
especially intelligence officers.'
Howard, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Air Power
History
`This is a fascinating saga.'
M. G. Bond, Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
`editors and contributors have made Codebreakers an essential work
... It must be read by anyone and everyone concerned with
intelligence during the Second World war .... It will be
fundamental to anyone concerned with the techniques used during the
Second World War to attack ciphers, super-enciphered codebooks or
machine ciphers.'
John Ferris, University of Calgary, Intelligence and National
Secuirty
`... a very intimate, anecdotal history. Despite the grim and
far-reaching nature of their work, the reader goets a sense of a
world bounded by four walls and shared with a few close associates
whose common work made for very close relationships. The work of
the codebreakers ... is fascinating, if sometimes barely
comprehensible. ... a dramatic insight into just how remarkable the
codebreakers' accomplishments were.'
British Heritage
`It comes with impeccable references in the shape of its editors'
background and reputation, and does not disappoint.'
The British Army Review
`fascinating insiders' account of wartime code-cracking... and
absorbing read.'
Niall Fergusson
`a highly revealing, even exciting book... that lays fascinating
former secrets bare... It is a delight to have so crucial a subject
so clearly and entertainingly described, by some thirty people who
really understand what they are discussing and can set the record
quite straight.'
M. R. D. Foot, The Times
`Anyone interested in the Second World War will sit up all night,
and chess players and puzzle-solvers will be captivated by the
later chapters.'
Noel Annan, Independent on Sunday
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