![]() At first he wanted to see every single decrypted message but rapidly the volume of stuff grew so much for that to be practical, so they just gave him the juicy bits. Thanks for having me! I think that quote is attributed to Winston Churchill, who had a special box of decrypts delivered to him every day. Tell us about Bletchley as an organization. I believe most readers will know the overall significance of Bletchley Park and how it was “the Goose that laid the Golden Eggs” in terms of Allied intelligence against Nazi Germany. ![]() He is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.ĭermot has a new book out, with the paperback version available in the United States in July 2020, titled The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis. I asked him some questions about the book, Bletchley, and his war-winning, world-famous uncle.ĭermot, thank you for agreeing to this interview. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law. He is also a regular speaker at historical and other events. ![]() ![]() ![]() I got to know him fairly well during the long weekend he visited, through meals, a private tour of our galleries and during the symposium itself.ĭermot Turing is the acclaimed author of Prof, a biography of his famous uncle, The Story of Computing, and most recently X, Y and Z – The Real Story of How Enigma was Broken. The Museum had the pleasure of hosting Dermot Turing at our 2017 Winston S. ![]()
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