Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Code-Breaking Computers, (Paperback)

from MichaelHodges

A very rich history of WW2 Codebreaking genii and their machines. Not an easy subject for most laymen but well worth slugging through to the very end. The book is a compendium written by a sizeable panel comprising for the most part the original codebreakers and their electronic engineering inven...

from BillHall

An interesting read. Book cobbled together by author from a number of recent first person accounts and contemporary writings. Makes a very good case that Great Britain would have led the computer industry if it had not been for the stifling effects of the Official Secrets Act that prevented the w...

from jztemple

Only in the past few years has the story of the Colossus computers and their use to break the German's WW2 Tunny encoding machines come to light. Unlike the rather well known story of the Enigma machine, the Lorenz encoding machine (code named Tunny by the Brits) was more complex and required far...