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020    9780525521549|q(hardcover) 
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100 1  Price, David A.|q(David Andrew),|d1961-|eauthor. 
245 10 Geniuses at war :|bBletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn 
       of the digital age /|cDavid A. Price. 
246 30 Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the dawn of the digital age 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c[2021] 
300    243 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 00 |tThe right type of recruit --|tThe palace coup --
       |tBreaking Tunny --|tThe soul of a new machine --
       |tDecrypting for D-Day --|tAfter the war --|tEpilogue: 
       Turing's child machine, 1968. 
520    "Geniuses at War is the dramatic, untold story of the 
       brilliant team who built the world's first digital 
       electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical 
       time in World War II. Decoding the communication of the 
       Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the 
       Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were 
       encrypted by the "Tunny" cipher, a code that was orders of
       magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma
       code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class 
       engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial
       plan to build a machine that could think at breathtaking 
       speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together 
       with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman and Enigma 
       code-breaker Alan Turing, Flowers and his team produced--
       against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership--
       Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer, 
       the machine that would help bring the war to an end. With 
       fascinating detail and illuminating insight, David A. 
       Price's Geniuses at War tells, for the first time, the 
       mesmerizing story of the great minds behind Colossus, and 
       chronicles their remarkable feats of engineering genius 
       which ushered in the dawn of the digital age"--|cProvided 
       by publisher. 
650  0 Cryptography|zGreat Britain|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Lorenz cipher system. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xElectronic intelligence|zGreat 
       Britain. 
651  0 Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)|xHistory|y20th 
       century.