The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park

When Britain needed to crack Nazi Germany's Enigma code during World War II, the government didn't recruit from a single profession. At Bletchley Park, a Victorian estate fifty miles north of London, they assembled one of history's most unlikely teams: mathematicians like Alan Turing, linguists fluent in German, chess champions, crossword puzzle enthusiasts recruited through newspaper competitions, and clerical workers who operated the massive decryption machines hour after exhausting hour.…