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The Bletchley Girls
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story | Tessa Dunlop
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'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail 'An in-depth picture of life in Britain's wartime intelligence centre...The result is fascinating, and is made all the more touching by the developing friendships between Dunlop and her interviewees.' Financial Times The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of fifteen women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation - Bletchley Park. It is their story, told in their voices; Tessa met and talked to 15 veterans, often visiting them several times. Firm friendships were made as their epic journey unfolded on paper. The scale of female involvement in Britain during the Second World War wasn't matched in any other country. From 8 million working women just over 7000 were hand-picked to work at Bletchley Park and its outstations. There had always been girls at the Park but soon they outnumbered the men three to one. A refugee from Belgium, a Scottish debutante, a Jewish 14-year-old, and a factory worker from Northamptonshire - the Bletchley Girls confound stereotypes. But they all have one common bond, the war and their highly confidential part in it. In the middle of the night, hunched over meaningless pieces of paper, tending mind-blowing machines, sitting listening for hours on end, theirs was invariably confusing, monotonous and meticulous work, about which they could not breathe a word. By meeting and talking to these fascinating female secret-keepers who are still alive today, Tessa Dunlop captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult world of war, secrecy, love and loss. Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers, it's the story of the girls behind Britain's ability to consistently out-smart the enemy, and an insight into the women they have become.
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Martta
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I loved this! 😍😍 This tells the true stories of women who broke German, Japanese and Italian codes at Bletchley park during the second world war. The book covers all aspects of their lives their work, love life, accomondation, education, backgrounds, family life, society, secrecy and the ultimate fame in their old age. It is not a boring history book but a lively memoir and vivid picture of women's lives during WWll.

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Martta
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Participating in #20in4 #readathon with these two. I won't have much time to read so I won't make it to the full 20 hours but I'm still going to try to get as much reading time as I can this weekend! 😁📚

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Martta
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Balcony reading 📚🤓😁

kspenmoll Pretty mug! 2y
Martta @kspenmoll I absolutely love these mugs! I have four of these. 😁 2y
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Martta
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Starting a new book 😍

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Lel2403
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I used to live in Bletchley, so this caught my eye...only 99p for the ebook at the moment

Crazeedi I have this on my pile, interested to know what you think! 6y
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DebinHawaii
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#Septembowie #Heroes Here are some books that I've read or listened to (The Radium Girls & The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks), started & need to finish (Hidden Figures, Rise of the Rocket Girls) or are loaded & sitting in my Kindle #TBR stack (Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy & The Bletchley Girls) about real-life women who are heroes. ❤️

Megabooks Great choices! 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk There's a great TV show on Netflix called The Bletchley Circle about former Bletchley girls turning their skills to mystery solving after the war. 7y
DebinHawaii @Booksandcooks Thank you! 💜 @TobeyTheScavengerMonk Yes! It was on PBS a couple of years ago and I really enjoyed it! 👍 7y
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Marchpane Love the theme here, unsung heroes 🙌🙌 7y
batsy Loved The Bletchley Circle! Wasn't aware of this nonfic book, thank you :) 7y
arlenefinnigan Weird, as I was reading your post the story about the Bletchley reunion came up on the news. Spooky. 7y
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