A gripping story of mathematics, science, computing, war history, cryptography, and homosexual persecution and liberation. Hodges tells how Turing's revolutionary idea of 1936-- the concept of a universal machine-- laid the foundation for the modern computer. Turing brought the idea to practical realization in 1945 with his electronic design. This work was directly related to Turing's leading role ...

Recensie van de biografie 'Alan Turing - Het Enigma' van Andrew Hodges over het leven van de wiskundige Alan Turing, die in 1954 zelfmoord pleegde, depressief door de chemische castratie vanwege zijn homoseksualiteit. Eerder was Hodges' meer dan dertig jaar oude boek de basis voor een speelfilm, The Imitation Game met Benedict Cumberbatch in de hoofdrol. Ter gelegenheid daarvan schreef Hodges een nieuw ...

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Roman Vishniac was born in 1897 in St. Petersburg, Russia and was educated in the Universities of Moscow and Berlin. From 1933 to 1939, he traveled throughout eastern Europe--Russia, Poland, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania--photographing Jewish communities. He was arrested and imprisoned repeatedly by police who suspected him of photographing Jews. Of the sixteen thousand images he took, two ...

A play, based on the book 'Alan Turing, The Enigma' by Andrew Hodges.

In 1941, in response to a warning by four of Britain's codebreakers that their efforts to break the Enigma code were being hampered by lack of funds, Winston Churchill ordered that they be given everything they need. This book traces the legacy of Bletchley Park, the codebreaking base. Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-519) and index. xv, 543 pages ; 24 cm

Tied to a Channel 4 television series, this is the story of the breaking of the Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. That remarkable feat - breaking a code that the Germans believed to be unbreakable - was to play a major part in the outcome of the war. Includes bibliographical references (page 182). 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Inspekteur war im Frieden der höchste Vertreter seiner Waffengattung und überwachte ihre Ausbildung. Mit Inkrafttreten der Kriegsspitzengliederung 1939 wurden die Inspekteure dem Chef der Heeresrüstung und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres unterstellt und ihre Aufgabenbereich auf Neuaufstellungen sowie Ausbildung ihrer Waffen im Ersatzheer beschränkt. Bis Kriegsende ...

Biografisch artikel over de Britse wiskundige Alan Turing die in de tweede wereldoorlog de enigma-code kraakte, maar na de oorlog werd vervolgd wegens een homosexuele relatie.

In the ruling circles of the Third Reich, Albert Speer was one of the most powerful figures. He was not only Hitler's architect and armaments minister but the Fuhrer's closest friend. In the dock at the Nuremberg Trials, Speer was one of the few defendants to take responsibility for Nazi war crimes, even as he denied knowledge of the Holocaust. Now this moral and psychological enigma is unveiled in ...

Familiar to anyone versed in the history of World War II or interested in the study of modern intelligence work, Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence operation in world history, the top secret workplace of the remarkable people who cracked Germany's vaunted Enigma Code. Almost to the end of the war, the Germans had firm faith in the Enigma ciphering machine, but in fact the ...

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From April 1933 to early 1943, Lösener served as the official "Jewish expert" in the German Ministry of Interior. In that role, he personally drafted much of the Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Pp. 3-31 contain an introduction by Schleunes, "The Enigma of Bernhard Lösener - Nazi Bureaucrat", reflecting on to what degree Lösener's postwar claims that he mitigated the severity of the Nazi racist legislation ...

"Between the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within - ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. ...

Stefan Bałuk urodził się w Warszawie w 1914 r. Podjął studia na Wydziale Finansowo- Ekonomicznym w Szkole Nauk Politycznych w Warszawie. Interesował się fotografią i fotografowaniem. Podczas kampanii wrześniowej w 1939 r. wykonał serię zdjęć, które następnie wysłał na Zachód. Losy wojenne związały go z Polskimi Siłami Zbrojnymi, polską emigracją we Francji i Anglii, oraz z działalnością konspiracyjną ...