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July 2011 marked the 90th birthday of a remarkable man Lord Asa Briggs. A Cambridge graduate, Bletchley Park code-breaker, and one of the most eminent and influential historians of our time, his experiences could easily fill several autobiographies. Yet, surprisingly this memoir is the first book that he has ever written about himself. In it, Briggs delves deep into his own history-from the origins of his highly distinctive name and his early education; through his recruitment into the Intelligence Corps and his wartime experiences as a Hut Six cryptographer; to his outstanding contributions as a social and cultural historian. Along the way h…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78159-402-5
- EAN: 9781781594025
- Produktnummer: 33472781
- Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 54'822 KB
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Asa Briggs is the author of thegroundbreaking trilogy Victorian People,Victorian Cities and Victorian Things,and of a five-volume history ofbroadcasting in the United Kingdom.His account of his time working as acryptographer at Bletchley Park duringthe Second World War, Secret Days, waspublished by Frontline in 2011.
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