Quote Scattered around outside of the mansion, on its lawns, were Spartan-looking single-story wooden huts, with little

chimneys coughing out thick, inky smoke, and windows covered for the blackout.(pg.6) The most talented young mathematician of them all, twenty-seven year old Alan Turing, from Kings College, Cambridge had been sounded out even earlier, as far back as 1937.(pg.17) And in 1937, at the time of the Spanish Civil War, Dilly Know had devised a way earlierHe did this partly by means of rodding: Knoxs rods were in the most basic terms , a painstakingly calculated slide rule-style representation(pg.43)

Explanation The mansion was the first thing that the recruits of Bletchley Park saw. This was where they would spend during World War II. Though they did not know it at the time the discoveries they would make would change the course of the war. The arrival of Alan Turning was incredibly important for Bletchley Park. Alan Turing would not only help process codes, he would also create the bombe machines and help create Colossus.

This invention by Dilly Knox proved to be one of the most crucial things that would lead to the cracking of the Enigma code. The Enigma code would use Dillys sliding technique, cillies and John Herivels Tip. This would soon be replaced by bombe machines but this was the main tool. The Poles devised two ciphering techniques. One The Polish were the first ones to solve Enigma. was a manual technique, using Zygalski sheets, Although the poles were able to crack the code, it named after their inventor mathematician Henry was extremely time consuming. This helped Zygalski As a method, it was both tough and time Bletchley not only crack temporary codes, but also consuming, but it worked until the Germans helped it for the new inventions it would make. At increased the complex Enigma codding.(pg.44) least with this, the recruits could start deciphering. Of great help to Bletchley was Dilly Know hitting Dilly Knoxs Dilly Sillies were one of the upon the principal of what was termed cillis or techniques that cracked the Enigma before Turings Dilly Sillies These were defined by Sir Harry bombe machines. Dilly Sillies was the idea that: 1. Hinsley as procedural errors made by Enigma the operators wont change or they might change it operators.(pg.73) a little. 2. The codes are recognizable. Very shortly after Turing returned to Bletchley This is the moment when Bletchley Park gets a Park, the momentous breakthrough came. The faster and more analytic approach. Turing veteran Frank Lucas recalled: On snowy January conversed with the Poles and found a better way to Morning of 1940, in a small bleak wooden room approach the gigantic problem of Enigma. As a with nothing but a table and three chairs, the first result, as Frank Lucas recalls it, this was the first bundle of Enigma decodes appeared.(pg.77) time at Bletchley that the codes were decoded. Loosely, Herivels insight concerned Enigmas ring setting, and how the machines operator might, for various reasons ranging from laziness to tiredness to panic, choose as the next days setting the letters already in the machines window from the day before. (pg.80) Despite the daunting numbers of combination thrown up by Enigma, it nonetheless worked via a mechanical process. Thus, reasoned Turing, Enigma could also be thwarted mechanically.(pg.94) With Herivels insight, the recruits of Bletchley were able to decode Enigma at top speed. Herivels insight came from a dream he had. In that dream he visualized himself as the Enigma machine operator and realized the things they faced to make the coding. Turing reasoned that if Enigma could also encrypt than a machine could also decrypt. Thus he made the bombe machines. These machines weighed a ton and were seven foot by eight foot. The bombe machines increased the speed of the decoders.

As a triumph of engineering, and a bringing a theoretical design to life, it was unquestionably his [Tommy Flowers]; although the astonishing machine had much of Turings logical reasoning at its core, there was also ingenuity in the way that Flowers improved upon the electronic valves, making sure that they were never switched off once they were in service, which read 5,000 characters in a second, 5 times faster than the Heath Robinson. (pg. 264) My father died in 1951.And of course he never heard anything about my war career. Although he need knew I had been at Bletchley Park, he had no idea of what I had been doing. And there was a point, shortly before he died, when he experienced this tremendous frustration. I was a son who had promised great things after his school career, and who then seemed, to him to be doing nothing during the war. (pg.308)

The Colossus was an excellent machine and it was the predecessor of the bombe machines. This machine was virtually a computer. However, since the British government did not want the Russians to know they had such a device, they mad e Flowers himself destroy it. This was completely unjust since his machine would help the recruits of Bletchley during the most important moment in their history: D-day. Any code that could not be solved would be solved by these gigantic machines. This is the story of John Herivel. Although Herivel probably did more than the average solider, he could not tell his father because he swore secrecy. As a result, Herivels father died without knowing the influential job of his son. This was the case for a lot of the recruits. The recruits could not tell their parents and until the 1970s. This took a toll on the recruits of Bletchley and formed a sense of guilt for most of the them.