A melting pot of Oxbridge dons, maverick oddballs & more regular citizens worked night & day at Station X, as Bletchley Park was known, to derive intelligence information from German coded messages.

Bear in mind that an Enigma machine had a possible 159 million million million different settings & the magnitude of the challenge becomes apparent.

That they succeeded, despite military scepticism, supplying information that led to the sinking of the Bismarck, Montgomerys victory in North Africa & the D-Day landings, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, as the Second World War segued into the Cold War.

Michael Smith constructs his absorbing narrative around the reminiscences of those who worked & played at Bletchley Park, & their stories add a very human colour to their cerebral activity.

The code breakers of Station X did not win the war but they undoubtedly shortened it, & the lives saved on both sides stand as their greatest achievement.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781849540957
• Author: Michael Smith
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 328
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm















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It's four years since Erin Joyce left Dublin under a cloud & brought a guesthouse in the remote, beautiful village of Dunbarra. The Gatehouse attracts a strange clutch of guests, none of whom want to leave. There's Hazel, an artist, & Gracie, her sweet, silent daughter. There's Sandra, a brash American. & then there's wise old easy-going PJ, who seems to have been there forever. But Erin's fragile happiness is thrown off-balance by the arrival of A-list Hollywood actor, Sebastian Gray. Erin finds herself drawn to this handsome, enigmatic man, who used to walk with a swagger but now prowls the country lanes with haunted eyes. Sebastian isn't the only one at the Gatehouse with a secret. Why is Hazel cast so adrift? Where does PJ go each week without fail, & what really brought Sandra to Dunbarra? As Erin finds herself embroiled in her guests' secrets, she starts to ask herself: will she be ready to reveal her own? ...

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