The Secret That Won The War — Bletchley Park, The Enigma Code, and The Man Britain Forgot To Thank

Send us Fan MailThe Germans believed it was mathematically impossible to break. The number of possible configurations ran into the hundreds of quintillions. No human being could check them all. No process known to exist could narrow them down fast enough.They were wrong.In a Victorian country house fifty miles north of London, ten thousand people — most of them women — worked in absolute secrecy to do the impossible. They cracked the Enigma code. They read German military traffic in near real time. And they kept that secret for thirty years after the war ended.In this episode, Amanda and Harry unwind the full story of Bletchley Park — the Enigma machine and how it worked, the mathematical genius of Alan Turing and the Bombe that broke it, and the terrible moral arithmetic of an intelligence operation so valuable that sometimes it could not be used — even when lives depended on it.And the man at the center of it all, Alan Turing, who may have done more to win the war than almost any other individual — and who was destroyed by his own country afterward.Send your thoughts and story ideas to [email protected] us at www.beststorypublishing.com