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Book reviews

Review of 100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay

Pages 282-284 | Published online: 26 May 2023
 

Notes

1 See the review by John Dooley (Dooley Citation2022).

2 The character Osla Kendall is based on Osla Benning. The character Beth Finch is partially based on Mavis Lever. The traitor Giles Talbot is loosely based on the presence of John Cairncross at Bletchley Park. Harry Zarb is partially based on Keith Batey. Margaret Rock, Alastair Denniston, Edward Travis, Asa Briggs, Ian Fleming, Alan Turing, and Alfred Dillwyn (Dilly) Knox all appear in both The Rose Code and 100 People. Those who enjoyed The Rose Code should consider reading codebreaker Sarah Baring’s witty memoir The Road to Station X (Baring Citation2000). Baring was a friend of Osla Benning, and the Osla Kendall character and some of the incidents in The Rose Code come from Baring’s memoir.

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Chris Christensen

Chris Christensen teaches cryptology and mathematics at Northern Kentucky University. He is exploring Bletchley Park’s work on JN-25 from John Tiltman’s breaking of JN-25A-1 just three months after the introduction of the cipher by the Japanese to Bletchley Park’s breaking of JN-25L-53 in the summer of 1945.

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