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Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers
The American ENIAC is customarily regarded as having been the starting point of electronic computation. This book rewrites the history of computer science, arguing that in reality Colossus--the giant computer built by the British secret service during World War II--predates ENIAC by two years.
Colossus was built during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cyphe...more
Colossus was built during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cyphe...more
Hardcover, 462 pages
Published
May 1st 2006
by Oxford University Press
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Although a struggle to get through in places, overall, Colossus is a spell-binding chronicle of Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret agency charged with breaking of German military codes during World War II. The story is told from many viewpoints and many of chapters are written by the original masterminds of the operation. Due to the many authors, the story is a bit uneven and repetition abounds. But the latter is not all bad, since the subject matter can be confusing to the non-cryptologically...more
We know about the Enigma machine but this is about Tunny, a more advanced machine used in the later parts of the war that the British also broke into. Based on material only declassified in 2000.
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