TY - BOOK AU - McKay,Sinclair AU - McKay,Sinclair TI - The secret lives of codebreakers: the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park SN - 0452298717 (pbk.) PY - 2012/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Penguin Group KW - Great Britain KW - Government Communications Headquarters KW - History KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Cryptography KW - Electronic intelligence KW - Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) N1 - Previous ed.: The secret life of Bletchley Park : the WWII codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there / Sinclair McKay, 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; Reporting for duty -- 1938-39: The school of codes -- 1939: Rounding up the brightest and the best -- The house and the surrounding country -- 1939: How do you break the unbreakable? -- 1939-40: The Enigma initiation -- Freezing billets and outdoor loos -- 1940: the first glimmers of light -- 1940: inspiration and intensity -- 1940: The coming of the bombes -- 1940: Enigma and the Blitz -- Bletchley and the class question -- 1941: The Battle of the Atlantic -- Food, booze and too much tea -- 1941: The wrens and their larks -- 1941: Bletchley and Churchill -- Military or civilian? -- 1942: Grave setbacks and internal strife -- The rules of attraction -- 1943: A very special relationship -- 1943: The hazards of careless talk -- Bletchley and the Russians -- The cultural life of Bletchley Park -- 1943-44: The rise of the colossus -- 1944-45: D-Day and the end of the war -- 1945 and after: The immediate aftermath -- Bletchley's intellectual legacy -- After Bletchley : the silence descends -- The rescue of the Park ER -