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020			_a9780330419291 [paperback]
040			_cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
100			_aSmith, Michael _eauthor.
245			_aStation X : _bthe codebreakers of Bletchley Park / _cMichael Smith.
260			_aLondon : _bPan Books, _cc2004.
300			_a216 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ;
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
490			_aPan grand strategy series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	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
520			_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.
521			_aAdult
541			_yGeneral Education _zGeneral Education : History
546			_aEnglish
610			_aGovernment Code and Cypher School (Great Britain)
650			_aMilitary intelligence _xHistory _y20th century. _zGreat Britain
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCryptography.
651			_aBletchley (Buckinghamshire, England) _xHistory.
830			_aPan grand strategy series
942			_2ddc _cBK
998			_cadryann[new] _d12/17/2025
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