Station X: Codebreakers Of Bletchley Park

"Station X" is the fascinating story of the codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. In 1939, hundreds of people from all walks of life were ordered to report to a Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire; 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 possibilities, creating a daunting job for the dedicated codebreakers working around the clock in a chaotic environment. No longer bound by the Official Secrets Act, the survivors can finally relate what went on at Bletchley Park. Blending eyewitness accounts and historical sources, Smith has produced a gripping account of the people and their achievements.