The British government's top secret Code & Cypher School at
Bletchley Park, otherwise known as Station X, was the unlikely
setting for one of the most vital undercover operations of the
Second World War. It was at Bletchley in present-day Milton Keynes
that teams of code breakers succeeded in cracking Germany's
supposedly unbreakable Enigma codes, thereby shortening the war by
at least two years.
Marion Hill has used the transcripts of some 200 interviews and
memoirs from among the thousands of people who worked at Station X
to give a remarkable insight into the daily lives of the civilian
and service personnel who contributed to the breaking of the Enigma
and other Axis codes. She explores their recruitment and training,
their first impressions on arrival at Bletchley Park ('BP'), their
working conditions, (including the in house food and
entertainment), and their time off in billets and beyond. These BP
workers, from boffins and debs to ex-bank clerks and engineers,
were united in the need to 'keep mum' - even with their family and
close friends. However, the stressful burden of secrecy created
divisions within the organisation, and illnesses; and many felt
disappointed at the lack of acknowledgement for a vital job about
which they were forbidden to speak until many years later.
A selection of archive photographs and illustrations accompanies
the text, drawn from the Bletchley Park Trust Archive and from the
personal albums of those stationed at Bletchley.
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