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GC&CS General Reading List The following is a list of a few of the widely available secondary publications concerning the history of GC&CS. Many more are available. Researchers should also investigate relevant papers and articles in the Journals Cryptologia , Intelligence and National Security, and the Journal of Intelligence History. Mavis Batey Dilly, The Man Who Broke Enigmas (2009) Patrick Beesley, Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-45 (1977) Stephen Budiansky, Battle of Wits, the Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (2002) Peter Calvocoressi, Top Secret Ultra (1980) R Erskine and M. Smith (eds) Action This Day, Bletchley Park from the Breaking of the Enigma Code to the Birth of the Modern Computer (2001) Paul Gannon, Colossus, Bletchley Park’s Greatest Secret (2007) Joel Greenberg, Gordon Welchman, Bletchley Park’s Architect of Ultra Intelligence (2014) F. H. Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (4 vols) (1979-88) F.H. Hinsley and A Stripp (eds), Codebreakers - The Inside Story of Bletchley Park (1993) Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) David Kahn, Seizing the Enigma The Race to Break the German U-boat codes 1939-43 (1991) Sinclair McKay, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park (2010) Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Enigma, the Battle for the Code (2000) Simon Singh, The Code Book (1999) Michael Smith The Emperor’s codes (2000) Michael Smith, The Secrets of Station X - How Bletchley Park helped win the War (2011) Michael Smith The Debs of Bletchley Park and Other Stories (2015) Dermot Turing Prof: Alan Turing Decoded (2016) Dermot Turing Bletchley Park: Demystifying the Bombe ( 2014) Gordon Welchman, The Hut 6 Story (1982) F.W. Winterbotham, The Ultra Secret (1974) .

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