02372nam a22003137a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020003000062040003100092100002800123245007100151260003300222300005100255336002100306337002500327338002300352490003000375504005100405505036100456520092600817521001001743541005101753546001201804610005401816650006601870650004001936651005201976830003002028OSt20251217125750.0251217m20041998enka|||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780330419291 [paperback]  cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad  aSmith, Michaeleauthor.  aStation X : bthe codebreakers of Bletchley Park /cMichael Smith.  aLondon :bPan Books,cc2004.  a216 pages :billustrations (black and white) ;  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aPan grand strategy series  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe arrival -- Astrologers and academics -- The battle to break Enigma -- The first break -- The battle of Britain -- The first battle of the Atlantic -- 'Action this day' -- The North African campaign -- The shark blackout -- The Americans -- Fish and Colossus -- Double cross and D-Day -- The invasion of Europe -- The Burma road -- The end of Station X   aIn 1939 several hundred people - students, professors, international chess players, junior military officers, actresses and debutantes - reported to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire: Bletchley Park. This was to be 'Station X', the Allies' top-secret centre for deciphering enemy codes.
Their task was to break the ingenious Enigma cypher used for German high-level communications. The settings for the Enigma machine changed continually and each day the German operators had 159 million million million different possibilities. Yet against all odds this gifted group achieved the impossible, coping with even greater difficulties to break Shark, the U-Boat Enigma, and Fish, the cypher system used by Hitler to talk to his generals.
Station X is also the story of the people involved from leading codebreakers such as Alan Turing, father of the modern computer, to the female operators who intercepted the messages.  aAdult  yGeneral EducationzGeneral Education : History  aEnglish  aGovernment Code and Cypher School (Great Britain)  aMilitary intelligencexHistory y20th century.zGreat Britain  aWorld War, 1939-1945xCryptography.  aBletchley (Buckinghamshire, England) xHistory.  aPan grand strategy series