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With both sides reading each other’s codes, the biggest secret of all – that the codes had been broken – was now at risk. Sooner or later, on one side or the other, the cipher failures would become known, the systems would be changed and the most valuable source of intelligence would dry up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere it not for obstinacy, overconfidence and ostrichism. On both sides. The Germans demanded that the traitors be rooted out; the British stifled cipher questions beneath a tangle of committees. The codebreakers’ contest became a struggle to lose the cipher war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the very outset, the Enigma secret was one of treachery, betrayal and deception. 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Women were not just secretaries and assistants: they had serious full-on codebreaking roles. And this was not just at Bletchley, or in the UK, or even only in the Second World War. These were women like Margaret Rock, who solved Enigma and other machine problems; Agnes Driscoll, the first US Navy codebreaker; and Asta Friedrichs, who postwar became a prime source for information on German Foreign Office codebreaking. Yet, when the histories were written, these women – and many more besides – somehow got left out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho were they? What did they achieve? How did they ‘vanish’? In \u003cem\u003eMisread Signals\u003c\/em\u003e, expert codebreaking historian Dermot Turing turns his attention to these long-ignored women and puts their contributions back in the spotlight where they belong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307504120181,"sku":"9781803997933","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803997933_ddb2c5f0-2614-4f2a-9556-22c9bb4c1d7e.jpg?v=1786027377"},{"product_id":"9780750998673","title":"Alan Turing Decoded","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into his 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist.\u003c\/strong\u003e He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. Now Dermot Turing has taken a fresh look at the influences on his uncle’s life and creativity, and the creation of a legend. He discloses the real character behind the cipher-text, answering questions that help the man emerge from his legacy: how did Alan’s childhood experiences influence him? How did his creative ideas evolve? Was he really a solitary genius? What was his wartime work after 1942, and what of the Enigma story? What is the truth about the conviction for gross indecency, and did he commit suicide? 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