Hijacking Enigma: The Insider's Tale - Hardcover

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Christine Large continues a line of individualistic Bletchley Park directors. Her career began with a law degree and includes private sector business roles and voluntary work. She has been employed by the National Federation of Women?s Institutes, has been a university lecturer in business studies, a CBI London council member, chaired the governing body of London?s largest state primary school and chaired a national charity.
She helped Bletchley Park as a volunteer for 18 months before being appointed its Director in 1998. Christine?s mother-in-law worked at Bletchley Park during the war and her father-in-law retrieved Allied spies from overseas for Special Operations Executive. Her mission is to build on the codebreaking pioneers? work, transforming the site into a heritage park famed for education and technology innovation.
Christine lives in London and is married with two daughters. Her hobbies include playing the cello and learning Russian.

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On April Fool’s Day 2000 a rare and highly valued Enigma machine was stolen from Bletchley Park, which used to be Winston Churchill’s top secret Second World War code breaking operation. The machine, known as an Abwehr, serial number G312, had been used by German military intelligence staff during World War II to encrypt high-level messages. The theft was the culmination of a hate campaign against Bletchley Park’s Director. Death threats to the Director preceded a series of notes demanding money for the machine’s return.

A major police operation was launched but little progress was made until part of the machine was finally posted to TV presenter, Jeremy Paxman at the BBC. Efforts continued to recover the remainder of the machine and an arrest was finally made.

Christine Large, Director of Bletchley Park, skilfully interweaves the original stories of Enigma escapades, containing significant new material, with that of this most recent twist in its astonishing history.

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On April Fool’s Day 2000 a rare and highly valued Enigma machine was stolen from Bletchley Park, which used to be Winston Churchill’s top secret Second World War code breaking operation. The machine, known as an Abwehr, serial number G312, had been used by German military intelligence staff during World War II to encrypt high-level messages. The theft was the culmination of a hate campaign against Bletchley Park’s Director. Death threats to the Director preceded a series of notes demanding money for the machine’s return.

A major police operation was launched but little progress was made until part of the machine was finally posted to TV presenter, Jeremy Paxman at the BBC. Efforts continued to recover the remainder of the machine and an arrest was finally made.

Christine Large, Director of Bletchley Park, skilfully interweaves the original stories of Enigma escapades, containing significant new material, with that of this most recent twist in its astonishing history.