"The huge success of Sinclair's The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - a quarter of a million copies sold to date - has been symptomatic of a similarly dramatic increase in visitors to Bletchley Park itself, the Victorian mansion in Buckinghamshire now open as an engrossing museum of wartime codebreaking. Now, therefore, Aurum is publishing the first comprehensive illustrated history of this remarkable place, 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 within the grounds, to become the place where modern computing was invented and the German Enigma code was cracked, its post-war dereliction and then rescue towards the end of the twentieth century as a museum whose visitor numbers have more than doubled in the last five years."--Publisher's description.

The House and Grounds -- Conversion to Codebreaking Factory -- The Cryptologists -- The Girls, the Pearls and the Musical Sergeants -- The Machines that Changed the Future -- Off-Duty Hours and the Pressure Valves -- Bletchley the Wartime Town -- The Worldwide Listeners -- Bletchley Park's Famous Faces -- Broken Codes and the Course of History -- What the Codebreakers did Next -- Bletchley After the War -- Rescue and Renovation -- Royals, Dignitaries -- and James Bond.