Greg answers “Is this the book for The Imitation Game...”

GenjiHere asked this question about Alan Turing: The Enigma:

Is this the book for The Imitation Game because the end of the movie it says that the movie is based off of this book?

Greg The film focuses on about 1/3rd of this book: Turing's stupendous efforts during WW2 and then moves quickly to his death. Turing effectively started w…moreThe film focuses on about 1/3rd of this book: Turing's stupendous efforts during WW2 and then moves quickly to his death. Turing effectively started working on his universal computer in about 1936, and ten years later his computer seemed like it had simply fallen out of the sky. Turing and his fellow workers never talked about what they had done during the WW2 during their lifetimes, and only in the late 1970s the work slowly came to light. The movie is definitely Turing-Lite, and it was a good film.(less)

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