The Watchman of Bletchley Park
In 1939, a retired classics scholar named Alfred Dillwyn Knox had spent decades studying ancient papyri, patiently deciphering fragments that most academics dismissed as unreadable....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 2:22-40.
In 1939, a retired classics scholar named Alfred Dillwyn Knox had spent decades studying ancient papyri, patiently deciphering fragments that most academics dismissed as unreadable. When Britain needed codebreakers at Bletchley Park, Knox was sixty-five years old and battling stomach cancer. Many thought his best years were behind him. Yet Knox recognized something in the early Enigma intercepts that younger analysts missed.…
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