The untold story of Bletchley Park’s key role in the success of the Normandy campaign
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.
Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war’s turning point—the Normandy landings in 1944—had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley’s vital contribution to success in Normandy and, ultimately, Allied victory.
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David Kenyon is the research historian at Bletchley Park. He is coauthor of Digging the Trenches and author of Horsemen in No Man’s Land and Bletchley Park and D-Day.
Greg Patmore became an actor and voice artist in his midforties and has enjoyed a varied career on stage, screen, and in the voice-over studio ever since. Books have always played a huge role in his life. He won an Audie Award in 2019, an Audiofile Earphones Award in February 2019, and was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2018. Best known on TV as Good ’Lias Hatfield in the Golden Globe and Emmy award–winning Hatfields & McCoys, alongside Kevin Costner, Greg is also a composer and musician, lives as much as possible on a beautiful Dutch Barge somewhere in the middle of France, and is a passionate follower of Rugby League and supporter of the world famous Wigan Warriors.