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Breaking the Code:
Britain Combats Firepower with Brainpower:
Learning enemy secrets was vital as Britain battled for survival in 1939. British intelligence gathered an eclectic array of mathematicians, linguist[s], artists, and thinkers at Bletchley Park. Their assignment was simple: break Germany's codes. But with the Nazi's Enigma machine capable of 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 combinations, this task was dauntingly complex.
The first team of 100 code-breakers mushroomed to 10,000, mostly women. Working day and night, they repeatedly defied the odds. Equally remarkable, they successfully kept Bletchley's secret throughout the war... and for 30 years after. |