Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Aurum Press (2016), Edition: Illustrated, 176 pages
Description
A beautifully presented collector's edition of the best selling book, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, this title is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
176 p.; 10.25 inches
ISBN
9781781315347
Local notes
An illustrated history of Bletchley Park, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, to its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum.
Removable memorabilia includes: 1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing's name; Churchill's 'Action this day' letter giving code breakers extra resources; Handwritten Turing memos; Top Secret Engima decryptions, about the sinking of the Bismark, German High Command's assessment of D-Day threat and the message announcing Hitler's suicide; and a wealth of everyday items such as authentic theatre posters, a map of Bletchley Park, canteen menus, teleprinter print-outs of codes, and the Colossus paper tape spooled through machines.
Removable memorabilia includes: 1938 recruiting memo with a big tick against Turing's name; Churchill's 'Action this day' letter giving code breakers extra resources; Handwritten Turing memos; Top Secret Engima decryptions, about the sinking of the Bismark, German High Command's assessment of D-Day threat and the message announcing Hitler's suicide; and a wealth of everyday items such as authentic theatre posters, a map of Bletchley Park, canteen menus, teleprinter print-outs of codes, and the Colossus paper tape spooled through machines.