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Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped The Century by Sinclair McKay
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World ...Show more
Bletchley Park Brainteasers by Sinclair McKay
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Would you love to master morse code? Could you have have outsmarted an enigma machine? Would your love of chess have seen you recruited into the history books? When scouring the land for top-level code breakers, the Bletchley Park recruiters left no stone unturned. As well as approaching the country's ...Show more
Dresden - The Fire and the Darkness by Sinclair McKay
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war al ...Show more
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: History
Churchill through the eyes of those who met him, published for the 150th anniversary of his birth This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life. From Bletchley Park cod ...Show more
The Lost World of Bletchley Park : The Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by Sinclair McKay
$55.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good-very good
The first comprehensive illustrated history of a remarkable Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire that played such an important role in British history. From its prewar heyday as a country estate under the Liberal MP Sir Herbert Leon, through its wartime requisition with the addition of the famous huts w ...Show more
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There by Sinclair McKay
$35.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Bletchley Park was where one of the warOCOs most famous OCo and crucial OCo achievements was made: the cracking of GermanyOCOs OC EnigmaOCO code in which its most important military communications were couched.This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to BritainOCOs most brilliant m ...Show more
The Secret Listeners: How the Y service intercepted the secret German codes for Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History
Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machineÂ’s code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations ...Show more
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ Codebreakers Who Fought the Cold War by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: World History
Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, Sinclair McKay now uncovers the story of what happened after the Second World War was over. Many of the men and women who had worked at Bletchley Park moved on to GCHQ, the British government's new facility esta ...Show more
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