Thirty Secret Years

Robin Denniston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2007
Polperro Heritage Press (Verlag)
978-0-9553648-0-8 (ISBN)

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Reveals how Alastair Denniston became head of the British government's cipher-breaking bureau in 1919 and developed a team of fellow experts between the wars by spying on the Soviets. In 1939, he went on to lead a body of secret service men and women to Bletchley Park where they enabled Churchill to avoid defeat.

"Thirty Secret Years" reveals how an enterprising Scottish linguist was able to decipher German naval messages in the Admiralty in World War One. Alastair Denniston became head of the British government's cabinet noir or cipher-breaking bureau in 1919, developed his team of fellow experts between the wars by spying on the Soviets from Whitehall. In 1939, he went on to lead an enlarged body of secret service men and women to Bletchley Park where they solved the vast problems of machine encipherment, enabling Churchill to avoid defeat in 1941 and invade Western Europe in June 1944. It is the story of how one man, working in obscurity and total secrecy, influenced the course of world history over 30 years of war and peace, told by his son.

Robin Denniston has been a publisher all his working life. Starting as a trainee in Collins's Glasgow factory in 1950, he moved to work as an editor in their London office until 1958 when after a short period in a small religious press he joined Hodder and Stoughton as promotion manager, rising to become editorial and then managing director there. In 1974 he left Hodders to become Deputy Chairman of Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and 18 months later he was headhunted by the Thomson group to take charge of their book publishing activities - Nelson, Michael Joseph, Hamish Hamilton, Rainbird and Sphere paperbacks. He left Thomson in 1978, the year of his ordination as deacon in the church of England, to become academic publisher at Oxford University Press, additionally taking charge of the general and reference division which published the Oxford dictionaries. He retired in 1989

Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	Clifton-upon-Teme
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-9553648-0-9 / 0955364809
ISBN-13	978-0-9553648-0-8 / 9780955364808
Zustand	Neuware