It is the height of the Second World War. A group of codebreakers stands in a dimly lit warehouse 50 miles northwest of London, a giant machine composed of spinning drums and wires looms in front of ...

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The Nazis sent coded messages through the cipher machines to their ships and U-boats to plan devastating attacks on Allied shipping. The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park, led by Alan Turing, ...