Alan Judd

The ne plus Ultra

The story of Bletchley Park, MI6’s second world war code-breaking operation, has grown with the telling since the early 1970s accounts — although, as Briggs points out, Bletchley’s first public disclosure was in Time magazine in December 1945.

  • Secret Days: Code-breaking in Bletchley Park

    Asa Briggs

    Frontline Books, 5 Accommodation Road, London NW11 8 ED, Tel: 0208 455 5559, pp. 202

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