The ‘Ys’ are coming! Secret 1941 diary of pioneering Bletchley spy chief tells of moment the special relationship was born as US stepped in to help British codebreakers during WWII Alastair Denniston recorded first visit of US cryptographers to Bletchley Park Commander was working with Alan Turing to crack German Enigma code in 1941 The … Read more
One of the last remaining women code-breakers at the heart of the D-Day secrets campaign at Bletchley Park has died aged 94. Margaret Kelly was only 18 when in 1944 she was posted to the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War. She joined a top secret Nazi code-breaking … Read more
Lost diary reveals extraordinary story of Bletchley Park codebreaker’s broken romance with German divorcee whose three Nazi sons fought for Hitler Becky Edmunds found John Richard Perceval’s diaries covering 1925 to 1976 Perceval was on a team that cracked Germany’s Enigma code at Bletchley Park He was in love with a German woman whose sons fought … Read more
Lost diary reveals extraordinary story of Bletchley Park codebreaker’s broken romance with German divorcee whose three Nazi sons fought for Hitler Becky Edmunds found John Richard Perceval’s diaries covering 1925 to 1976 Perceval was on a team that cracked Germany’s Enigma code at Bletchley Park He was in love with a German woman whose sons fought … Read more