Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 480 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA May 4, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 019284055X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0192840554
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
An engaging book that will be essential reading for historians of twentieth-century technology and warfare. Nature formidably detailed Guardian compelling compilation New Scientist
Product Review
"An excellent, ground breaking book, highly recommended."--Books-On-Line
Reader ReviewsThe story of the Bletchley Park code breaking efforts towards the German Enigma machine are well known. (If you are not familar the best book on the Enigma is:The German Enigma Cipher Machine: Beginnings, Success, and Ultimate Failure - ISBN 1-58053-996-3) Down through the years there have been only casual references to the Colossus machine that was used on the more sophisticated German coding machines. At last enough material has been declassified to enable the story to be told. Dr. Copeland, Director of the Turing Archive for the History of Computing and author of some very good books on Alan Turing, has collected an amazing amount of information on Colossus. This has come from various sources, primarily in the form of short essays written by people who worked on or with Colossus during ther war. This is an important book covering not only a little explored aspect of World War II but also an important step in the development of electronic computers. It also talks about how Colossus was held secret for so long that the important developments which it entailed might have helped Britain retain greater prosperity after the war. An excellent, ground breaking book, highly recommended.
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