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The Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives by Sinclair McKay
Category: Accessories
This is beautifully presented collector's edition of the best selling title, The Lost World of Bletchley Park is a comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, from its prewar heyday as a country estate, its wartime requisition and how it became the place where modern computing was invent ...Show more
The Lady in the Cellar - Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury by Sinclair McKay
Category: True Crime
Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, number 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable boarding house, whose tenants felt themselves to be on the rise in Victorian London. But beneath this genteel veneer lay a murderous darkness. For on 9th May 1879, the body of a former resid ...Show more
The Lost World of Bletchley Park : The Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by Sinclair McKay
Category: History
The first comprehensive illustrated history of a remarkable Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire that played such an important role in British history. From its prewar heyday as a country estate under the Liberal MP Sir Herbert Leon, through its wartime requisition with the addition of the famous huts w ...Show more
The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay
Category: Nature
In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle. With ...Show more
The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay
Category: True Crime
On Thursday 17 August, 1860, wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation. A veritable locked room mystery, there were an abundance of suspects, from disgruntled step children concerned about t ...Show more
The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book - Crime Scenes, Conundrums and Whodunnits to Test Your Inner Detective by Sinclair McKay
Category: Reference
Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard, from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers, Sinclair McKay. If you cracked the GCHQ Puzzle Book and tore through the Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, you MUST show off your brainteaser abilities and prove that you have what it take ...Show more
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There by Sinclair McKay
Category: History
Bletchley Park was where one of the warOCOs most famous OCo and crucial OCo achievements was made: the cracking of GermanyOCOs OC EnigmaOCO code in which its most important military communications were couched.This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to BritainOCOs most brilliant m ...Show more
The Secret Life of Fighter Command by Sinclair McKay
Category: Military
Now available in paperback From the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller The Secret Life of Bletchley Park During the dark days of 1940, when Britain faced the might of Hitler's armed forces alone, the RAF played an integral role in winning the Battle of Britain against the Luftwaffe, thus ensuring the ...Show more
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
Category: History
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret... The men and women of the 'Y' (for Wireless') Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous B ...Show more
The Secret Lives of CodebreakersThe Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
Category: History
A remarkable look at day-to-day life of the codebreakers whose clandestine efforts helped win World War II Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain's Government Code and Cypher School—and the site where Germany's l ...Show more
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ Codebreakers Who Fought the Cold War by Sinclair McKay
Category: History
Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, Sinclair McKay now uncovers the story of what happened after the Second World War was over. Many of the men and women who had worked at Bletchley Park moved on to GCHQ, the British government's new facility esta ...Show more