Sinclair McKay
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An illustrated history of the English manor house and grounds that were home to the famous World War II codebreakers.
The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park-a quarter of a million copies sold to date-has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking. Aurum is publishing the first comprehensive...
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Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, renowned author Sinclair McKay uncovers the story of what happened after the end of the Second World War.
Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley Park by cracking the impenetrable Enigma codes and giving the Allies an invaluable insight directly into the Nazi war machine, moved on to GCHQ. This...
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A chilling true crime story of a baffling boarding house murder in Victorian London and the stunning secrets revealed by the investigation.
Someone must have known what happened to Matilda Hacker. For someone in that house had killed her. So how could the murderer prove so elusive?
Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, No. 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable boarding house. But beneath this genteel Victorian London...
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When Winston Churchill made one of the most inspiring speeches of the 20th century-'we will fight them on the beaches'-he was giving thanks for the miracle of deliverance, the harrowing and breathless evacuation of over 338,000 troops from the beaches and harbour at Dunkirk.
Churchill was determined it shouldn't be labelled a victory. He was already too late. Hours later, broadcaster JB Priestley was to call it 'an absurd English epic'.
Those days...