The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis by
The traditional image of Bletchley Park is a place full of boffins and debs, and young women from the WRNS who had mindnumbingly tedious jobs tending codebreaking machinery. But how fair is that image Were the women of Bletchley consigned to role of drudgery, or did an egalitarian spirit enable them to loosen the straitjacket of gender expectations of the 1940s Bletchley Park’s history is retold by Dermot Turing, the nephew of Bletchley’s most famous alumnus Alan Turing. He looks at the growth and evolution of the World War II codebreaking centre through the stories of the people who worked there and
helped change the course of the war. In following that course, some surprises emerge and the personal lives of the people whose own contributions have been lost are rediscovered. About the author Dermot Turing is the acclaimed author of Prof, a biography of his famous uncle, The Story of Computing, and X, Y and Z - The Real Story of How Enigma was Broken. After gaining a D.Phil in genetics at Oxford, he moved into the legal profession, working for the Government Legal Service and then the international law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner until 2014. He is a trustee of Bletchley Park and of the Trust, and the Bletchley Park Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.