TY  - BOOK
AU  - Price,David A.
TI  - Geniuses at war: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age 
SN  - 9780525521549
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Cryptography
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Lorenz cipher system
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Electronic intelligence
KW  - Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
N1  - "A Borzoi book."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue -- The right type of recruit -- The palace coup -- Breaking Tunny -- The soul of a new machine -- Decrypting for D-Day -- After the war -- Epilogue: Turing's child machine, 1968
N2  - "Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that could think at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing, Flowers and his team produced--against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership--Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end. With fascinating detail and illuminating insight, David A. Price's Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus, and chronicles their remarkable feats of engineering genius which ushered in the dawn of the digital age"--
ER  -