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Author Kenyon, David, author

Title Bletchley Park and D-Day : the untold story of how the battle for Normandy was won / David Kenyon
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (339 pages)
Summary The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign. Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it. Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment, but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war's turning point--the Normandy Landings in 1944--had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley's vital contribution to success in Normandy, and ultimately, Allied victory. -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters (1948- ) -- History
Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence -- Great Britain
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain.
Operation Overlord.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Cryptography
Electronic intelligence
Military campaigns
Operation Overlord
Secret service
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History
England -- Milton Keynes -- Bletchley Park
France -- Normandy
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0300244800
9780300244809
Other Titles Untold story of how the battle for Normandy was won