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  • Alan Turing and Enigma Machine

    by Alan Moon ...
    Read the amazing life of this English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, who helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. Now in theaters with "The imitation Game" film. ... Read more

    $2.75 USD

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  • Alan Turing

    The Enigma Man

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Alan M. Turing

    Centenary Edition

    by Sara Turing, John Turing ...
    'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Bletchley Girls

    The women of Bletchley Park tell their breathtaking true story of war, secrecy, love and loss

    by Tessa Dunlop ...
    The extraordinary true story of the codebreaking women of World War Two'Nothing has breathed life into WWII in the same way as this truly engaging portrait of life at Bletchley Park sharing the memories of the women who worked at the code breaking coal face' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Beautifully written . . . Dunlop manages to do two things: she both lets these women's voices sing - showing their ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Secrets of Station X

    How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war

    by Michael Smith ...
    The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one of the earliest accounts. Using recently released secret files, along with personal interviews with many of ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Life of Bletchley Park

    The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

    by Sinclair McKay ...
    Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications were couched.It was home to some of Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains, such as Alan Turing, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • RJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTIONRJ Mitchell: Legend of the Spitfire recounts the extraordinary achievements of one of Britain’s greatest aviation legends, the man responsible for creating Britain’s most iconic fighter aircraft, the Supermarine Spitfire.The book, which is around the length of a short story, approximately 40 printed pages, gives the reader a concise and straightforward insight into the life of RJ ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters

    by Richard Edwards ...
    Series series British Flying Legends
    DESCRIPTION“An excellent book to read at this time during the anniversary of the bombing of the German dams by what seemed impossible odds.” Review.**Guy Gibson: Legend of the Dam Busters tells the dramatic story of a renowned British flying legend and his leadership of the infamous raid on the Ruhr dams in May 1943, providing a fitting and timely tribute to a truly courageous aviator.This short i ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Travelling to Infinity

    My life with Stephen

    by Jane Hawking ...
    Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and author of the scientific bestseller "A Brief History of Time", which sold over 25 million copies across the world and will be adapted as a children's book in the Autumn of next year. In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen ... Read more

    $10.39 USD

  • Enigma

    The Battle For The Code

    by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore ...
    The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Dombey and Son

    by Charles Dickens ...
    Charles Dickens' Dombey and Son tells the story of the wealthy owner of a shipping company, Paul Dombey, who dreams of having a son to carry on the family business. It deals with themes such as marriage for financial gain, cruelty towards children, family relationships, pride, arrogance, betrayal and the destructive effects of industrialization. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything

    by Hawking, Jane ...
    Soon to be a major motion picture called The Theory of Everything, starring Eddie Redmayne as Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife Jane. It chronicles their relationship, from his early development of ALS to his success in physics. In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen's academic renown soared, his body was ... Read more

    $12.39 USD