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Gchq : the secret wireless war, 1900-1986
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ISBN: 1526755793 9781526755797 1526755785 9781526755780 Year: 2019 Publisher: Barnsley, England ; Havertown, Pennsylvania : Frontline Books,

Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers
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ISBN: 0191917931 1280753129 0191513156 1429421517 9781429421515 9780191513152 019284055X 9780192840554 0191578215 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer, Colossus was used during World War 2 at Bletchley Park, where it played an invaluable role cracking enemy codes. Until very recently, much about the Colossus machine was shrouded in secrecy, largely because the codes that were employed remained in use by the British security services until a short time ago. This book only became possible due to the declassification in the US of wartime documents. With an introductory essay on cryptography and the history of code-breaking by Simon Singh, this book reveals the workings of Colossus and the staff at Bletchley Park through personal accounts by those who lived and worked with the computer. Among them is the testimony of Thomas Flowers, who was the architect of Colossus and whose personal account is published here for the first time.


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Decoding organization : Bletchley Park, codebreaking and organization studies
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ISBN: 9781139338400 1139338404 9781139336666 1139336665 9780511794186 0511794185 9781107005457 1107005450 9781139339988 9781107676756 1107676754 1139334166 110722733X 1280393912 113933753X 9786613571830 1139339982 1139341561 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How was Bletchley Park made as an organization? How was signals intelligence constructed as a field? What was Bletchley Park's culture and how was its work co-ordinated? Bletchley Park was not just the home of geniuses such as Alan Turing, it was also the workplace of thousands of other people, mostly women, and their organization was a key component in the cracking of Enigma. Challenging many popular perceptions, this book examines the hitherto unexamined complexities of how 10,000 people were brought together in complete secrecy during World War II to work on ciphers. Unlike most organizational studies, this book decodes, rather than encodes, the processes of organization and examines the structures, cultures and the work itself of Bletchley Park using archive and oral history sources. Organization theorists, intelligence historians and general readers alike will find in this book a challenge to their preconceptions of both Bletchley Park and organizational analysis.

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