The Mathematicians Who Shortened the War
From The Secret Intelligence Files · 8:42
Show by Ngoc
In a country house in Buckinghamshire, thousands of people worked in secret to read the enemy's mail. But the story of Bletchley Park begins in Poland, with three young mathematicians who broke the Enigma code first — and gave their secret away five weeks before the war began. This is the documented story of the codebreakers, the bombe, and the intelligence called Ultra.
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