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Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-breaking Computers

By: B. Jack Copeland
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019284055X
ISBN-13: 9780192840554
Released: 23 Feb 2006
RRP: £18.99
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Bletchley Park books - By: A. R. Bailey, 01 Sep 2007
A very interesting book written by those who were involved. Much easier to read than Paul Gannon's book as it is personal rather than historical from documents. A very interesting book & I can thoroughly recommend it.
Valuable part of the wartime jigsaw - By: PJC, 31 May 2006
This book contains numerous articles written by some of those invisible people who actuallly took part in this top secret project. Some of the accounts are those of frustration, from people not alllowed to get the recognition that they & their colleagues deserve. The level of detail & understanding shown makes this a very interesting & unique picture. I would recommend it without hesitation. Their ability to inject humour in the most serious of stories gives you some idea of the luck & good fortune that resulted in the most important achievements.
A great read! - By: J. Hazell, 27 Apr 2006
Couldn't put it down. You are lectured by some of the worlds greatest scientists, who undoubtably save the western world from the Nazis; it is written with humour & in excellent style. What fortune that the release of this classified information was just in time (but only just) to alllow contributions from those who reallly 'won the war'. The repetition of how Colossus worked by its many contributors alllows non-techies to reallly understand what it did, & how the first computer was British not American! Da Vinci code - eat your heart out!