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Inspired designs on tshirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more by independent artists and designers from around the world. Please read ticket terms and conditions before you book. The world war ii codebreakers who beat the enigma machineand more than 100 puzzles and riddles that inspired them. How the y service intercepted the secret german codes for bletchley park is equally fascinating story of the the people responsible for listening in to enemy wireless traffic and, from an increasingly large number of points around the world, passing the information back to bletchley park for. With anecdotes and descriptions, this is an account of daily life at government communications headquarters, bletchley park, the most successful intelligence agency in history.
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