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The spies of winter : the GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War / by Sinclair McKay.
By: McKay, Sinclair [author.]
.Publisher: London : Aurum Press Ltd, 2016Description: vi, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781312971.Subject(s): Great Britain. Government Communications Headquarters -- History | Cold War | Intelligence service -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 327.124100904 Summary: 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 established to fight a new foe - Stalin's KGB. McKay has interviewed various members of this secret organisation, from codebreakers and radio listeners to mechanical engineers and computer programmes who all shared the common desire to build a new Britain and protect it throughout the Cold War.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 327.124100904 MCK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 013691 |
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 established to fight a new foe - Stalin's KGB. McKay has interviewed various members of this secret organisation, from codebreakers and radio listeners to mechanical engineers and computer programmes who all shared the common desire to build a new Britain and protect it throughout the Cold War.