Bletchley Park and D-Day
David Kenyon
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Publish Date | May 24, 2022 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780300254754 |
| Dimensions | 7.7 X 5.0 X 1.1 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
Reviews
"With access to thousands of documents declassified in the last forty years, he paints a . . . detailed picture of BP and of the Normandy campaign."--Jonathan Beard, Michigan War Studies Review
"David Kenyon and Bletchley Park is the dream ticket. A wonderful scholar and communicator writing about one of the world's most fascinating historical sites."--Dan Snow, historian, documentary filmmaker, and television presenter
"Fascinating, readable and significant. David Kenyon takes us beyond the code-breaker heroics of movie-makers into a far richer portrait of Bletchley as nothing less than an 'intelligence factory, ' showing why it was so important for D-Day."--David Reynolds, coauthor of The Kremlin Letters
"This book fills a critical gap in the historiography of both Bletchley Park and Normandy, drawing on many primary sources that have only recently become available. It is also a well written work of very high scholarship from which even experts will learn much."--Stephen Badsey, author of Normandy 1944
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