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The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
It’s common knowledge that the Enigma cipher was broken at Bletchley Park, but less is known of the background: an exhilarating spy story of secret documents smuggled across borders, hair-raising escapes, Gestapo interrogations and betrayals.
At the heart of it is the decisive role of Polish mathematicians and French spymasters who helped Britain’s codebreakers change the course of the Second World War. X, Y & Z is the real story of how Enigma was broken.
14th August, 2025 in Military, Women in History
Bletchley Park is perceived as a world of male intellectuals supported by a vast staff of women in menial roles – a place where men helped sway the course of the Second World War. But women were not just typists and clerks. They had serious, full-on codebreaking roles. And not ju…
24th September, 2018 in History, Military
2018 marks the centenary of the invention by Arthur Scherbius of the Enigma machine. Enigma was probably the most famous of the mechanical cipher devices used in World War Two, its fame assured by the feats of code-breakers at Bletchley Park who devised ways to uncover which of t…
10th November, 2016 in Biography & Memoir, History, Society & Culture
Alan Turing is best known for helping to crack the Nazi’s Enigma cipher machine at Bletchley Park during World War II. Turing’s work helped the Allies to shorten the conflict by at least two years. However, Turing was more than an incredible codebreaker. He was a brilliant mathem…
