Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park - Michael Smith
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 Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park - Michael Smith
Newest Review: ... network and how they passed information through various commands. The Nazis had a machine which encoded their communications ... more  ... in such a way that the allied forces would never know their next move - they had Enigma!
This machine could encode a message, such that it would take an enormous number of calculations over a hugely impractical time for a cryptographer to decode the message. There were 159 million million million different possibilities!
But a select number of people managed to do it. Sometimes even before the intended German recipient had managed to unravel their own message.
And it was all hush-hush!
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Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park - Michael Smith: Top Secret Stuff! (545 words)
by - written on 22/12/08 (Very useful, 87 readings)
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This magnificent book tells the story of Britain's best kept secret! Station X was that secret, and it was probably Station X that played a huge part in ending the war when it did, with the outcome that happened. Britain could quite easily have been crushed due to the might of the German Luftwaffe, or we might have been starved by German Naval shipping, sinking ships that supplied us with food, or the Axis forces could quite simply have sailed across the Channel, landed on our beaches and after a short battle could have simply taken over (although it is debatable what they would have come up against the further north they got). The Nazis ... Read the complete review
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