Contents

     Praise

     Title Page

     Acknowledgements

  1 Reporting for Duty

  2 1938–39: The School of Codes

  3 1939: Rounding Up the Brightest and the Best

  4 The House and the Surrounding Country

  5 1939: How Do You Break the Unbreakable?

  6 1939–40: The Enigma Initiation

  7 Freezing Billets and Outdoor Loos

  8 1940: The First Glimmers of Light

  9 1940: Inspiration – and Intensity

10 1940: The Coming of the Bombes

11 1940: Enigma and the Blitz

12 Bletchley and the Class Question

13 1941: The Battle of the Atlantic

14 Food, Booze and Too Much Tea

15 1941: The Wrens and their Larks

16 1941: Bletchley and Churchill

17 Military or Civilian?

18 1942: Grave Setbacks and Internal Strife

19 The Rules of Attraction

20 1943: A Very Special Relationship

21 1943: The Hazards of Careless Talk

22 Bletchley and the Russians

23 The Cultural Life of Bletchley Park

24 1943–44: The Rise of the Colossus

25 1944–45: D-Day and the End of the War

26 1945 and After: The Immediate Aftermath

27 Bletchley’s Intellectual Legacy

28 After Bletchley: The Silence Descends

29 The Rescue of the Park

     Notes

     Index

     Copyright