WWII Codebreaking Events & Organisations

By Ronald Koorm

Welcome to the second volume in a glossary of codebreaking. WWII Codebreaking Events and Organisations delivers a clear, easily navigable and readable insight into collecting, analysing and exploiting intelligence during the Second World War.
It is a 'must read' for anyone seeking greater knowledge on the subject and is presented in a way that entices you, the reader, to research as much (or as little) as you need, to use the book as a starting point for deeper study or simply to learn more about those in the front line of codebreaking.
But the book delivers so much more in terms of historical context. It opens with the foundation of the Government Code & Cipher School in 1919, its transition to the top-secret wartime base at Bletchley Park before GCCS moved first to London, then to Cheltenham, where today it is known as GCHQ, the Government Communications Headquarters.
From the development of the first tabulating machines in 1908 to the global AI Safety Summit hosted in November 2023 by then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park, the book tracks the advancement of intelligence gathering.
As Artificial Intelligence advances at speed, cyber crime is ever more a threat and the danger of hackers becomes ever more real in the world's economy, recording the evolution of the principles of codebreaking and intelligence gathering remains as relevant today as it did in 1939-45.
Technology has moved forward at pace but intelligence gathering and analysis is every bit as relevant today as it was 80 years ago. This book is your essential guide throughout the journey to intelligence gathering at its, currently, most sophisticated.


Size: 240x 160mm, 241 pages, ISBN: 9781 3990 5344 0