Joan Clarke - The biography of a Bletchley Park enigma
Joan Clarke - The biography of a Bletchley Park enigma
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
The life of Joan Clarke, who worked alongside Alan Turing at Bletchley Park during World War 2 and subsequently at GCHQ. Having been recruited by GC&CS at the beginning of the war, Joan stayed with what then became GCHQ until well past retirement age. She worked on the unmasking of Philby, Burgess and Maclean during the Cold War.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free delivery in Australia
- Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
- 100% recyclable packaging
- Proud to be a B Corp – A Business for good
- Buy-back with Ziffit
Joan Clarke - The biography of a Bletchley Park enigma by Anthony Randall
Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstanding mathematician, Joan was the daughter of an Anglican priest and the granddaughter of the Archbishop of Melbourne. Having been recruited by GC&CS at the beginning of the war, Joan stayed with what then became GCHQ until well past retirement age. She worked on the unmasking of Philby, Burgess and Maclean, and on the decryption of intercepted Soviet communications during the Cold War. For ten years she lived 'very quietly' surrounded by the technology of the Cold War and the Early Warning systems installed on the east coast of Scotland, only to return to GCHQ in the early 1960s to take up a new position at Cheltenham, as though nothing had happened during the intervening years. Portrayed by Keira Knightley in the Hollywood film The Imitation Game, in reality Joan Clarke was the quiet woman of British Security; a role she played for forty-five years.
Anthony J Randall worked in computer software development for industrial and scientific applications and subsequently as an international explosives engineer.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781909465961 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909465968 |
| Title | Joan Clarke - The biography of a Bletchley Park enigma |
| Author | Anthony Randall |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Cloister House Press |
| Year published | 2019-09-20 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |