The Secrets of Station X
How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war
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Michael Smith
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Bletchley 1945: a place where nearly 10,000 people would contribute decisively to the Allied war effort. Their role? To decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for high-level communications. It is an astonishing story. A melting pot of Oxbridge dons, maverick oddballs and more regular citizens worked night and day at Station X, as Bletchley Park was known, to derive intelligence information from German coded messages. That they succeeded, despite military scepticism, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, as the Second World War segued into the Cold War.
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- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate. In reality, however, it was the top-secret headquarters of Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School - and the site where Germany’s legendary Enigma code was finally cracked. There, the nation’s most brilliant mathematical minds - including Alan Turing, whose discoveries at Bletchley would fuel the birth of modern computing - toiled alongside debutantes, factory workers, and students on projects of international importance. Until now, little has been revealed about ordinary life at this extraordinary facility.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull treatment of an exciting subject
- De Drew en 01-31-14
De: Sinclair McKay
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War of Shadows
- Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
- De: Gershom Gorenberg
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 14 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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As World War II raged in North Africa, General Erwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans and weaknesses. In the summer of 1942, he led his Axis army swiftly and terrifyingly toward Alexandria, with the goal of overrunning the entire Middle East. Each step was informed by detailed updates on British positions. The Nazis, somehow, had a source for the Allies' greatest secrets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting history: mediocre narration.
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 06-12-22
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Joe Rochefort's War
- The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway
- De: Elliot Carlson
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 189
Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share Rochefort's frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads him to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Amazingly engaging
- De Fletch en 10-19-13
De: Elliot Carlson
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The Hidden Nazi
- The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil
- De: Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery, Keith Chester
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 450
Sidekick to SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and supervisor of Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, General Hans Kammler was responsible for the construction of Hitler's slave labor sites and concentration camps. He personally altered the design of Auschwitz to increase crowding, ensuring that epidemic diseases would complement the work of the gas chambers. Why has the world forgotten this monster? Kammler was declared dead after the war. But the aide who testified to Kammler's supposed "suicide" never produced the general's dog tags or any other proof of death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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10 minutes of content hidden in a 12+ hour book
- De Scott G en 10-21-19
De: Dean Reuter, y otros
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Countdown to D-Day
- The German Perspective
- De: Peter Margaritis
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 28 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 135
In December 1943, with the rising realization that the Allies are planning to invade Fortress Europe, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is assigned the title of General Inspector for the Atlantic Wall. His mission is to assess their readiness. His superior, theater commander, crusty old Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, who had led the Reich to victory in the early years of the war, is now fed up with the whole Nazi regime. He lives comfortably in a plush villa in a quiet Paris suburb, waiting for the inevitable Allied invasion that will bring about their final defeat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well worth the length
- De James McNamara Richmond en 02-02-21
De: Peter Margaritis
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Code Warriors
- NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Did Vladimir Putin Steal the American Election?
- De Cynthia en 12-01-16
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The Nazi Conspiracy
- The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
- De: Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 918
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 814
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 811
In 1943, as the war against Nazi Germany raged abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt had a critical goal: a face-to-face sit-down with his allies Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. This first-ever meeting of the Big Three in Tehran, Iran, would decide some of the most crucial strategic details of the war. Yet when the Nazis found out about the meeting, their own secret plan took shape—an assassination plot that would’ve changed history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous book!
- De Luke Einfeldt en 01-18-23
De: Brad Meltzer, y otros
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Blackett's War
- The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 114
In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else.
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4 out of 5 stars
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First time science used to fight a war
- De Jean en 08-20-14
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The Secret War
- Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 30 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 342
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 337
Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly critical roles in the Second World War, exploited by every nation in the struggle to gain secret knowledge of its foes, and to sow havoc behind the fronts. In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Better read than listened to
- De B. In -t Veld en 03-25-17
De: Max Hastings
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GCHQ
- Centenary Edition
- De: Richard Aldrich
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 25 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 32
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29
GCHQ is the largest and most secretive intelligence organisation in the UK, and has existed for 100 years - but we still know next to nothing about it. In this ground-breaking book - the first and most definitive history of the organisation ever published - intelligence expert Richard Aldrich traces GCHQ’s development from a wartime code-breaking operation based in the Bedfordshire countryside into one of the world leading espionage organisations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely fascinating
- De philstopford en 04-01-24
De: Richard Aldrich
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The Second World War: Milestones to Disaster
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,205
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,401
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,385
Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant! Only Churchill could have done this.
- De John M en 10-30-08
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The Splendid and the Vile
- A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: John Lee, Erik Larson
- Duración: 17 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,032
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,223
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next 12 months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless."
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4 out of 5 stars
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John Lee’s narration is a struggle
- De Leslie Rathjens en 03-05-20
De: Erik Larson
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Eight Days at Yalta
- How Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin Shaped the Post-War World
- De: Diana Preston
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, they decided on the conduct of the final stages of the war against Germany, on how a defeated and occupied Germany should be governed, on the constitution of the nascent United Nations, and on spheres of influence in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Greece.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book has the best female voice narration.
- De Anonymous User en 10-05-24
De: Diana Preston
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A Man Called Intrepid
- The Incredible WWII Narrative of the Hero Whose Spy Network and Secret Diplomacy Changed the Course of History
- De: William Stevenson
- Narrado por: David McAlister
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 481
A Man Called Intrepid is the account of the world’s first integrated intelligence operation and of its master, William Stephenson. Codenamed INTREPID by Winston Churchill, Stephenson was charged with establishing and running a vast, worldwide intelligence network to challenge the terrifying force of Nazi Germany. Nothing less than the fate of Britain and the free world hung in the balance as INTREPID covertly set about stalling the Nazis by any means necessary.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You have to wonder ...
- De Mike From Mesa en 04-15-14
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The World Crisis, Vol. 1
- 1911-1914
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Churchill's epic series begins in 1911, when Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty, and opens with a chilling description of the Agadir Crisis and an in-depth account of naval clashes in the Dardanelles - one of Churchill's major military failures. It takes listeners from the fierce bloodshed of the Gallipoli campaign to the tragic sinking of the Lusitania and the tide-turning battles of Jutland and Verdun - as well as the USA's entry into the combat theater. The World Crisis provides a perspective you won't find anywhere else.
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1 out of 5 stars
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- De Anonymous User en 06-11-19
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Agents of Influence
- A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
- De: Henry Hemming
- Narrado por: Henry Hemming
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 26
As World War II raged into its second year, Britain sought a powerful ally to join its cause - but the American public was sharply divided on the subject. The Canadian-born MI6 officer William Stephenson, with his knowledge and influence in North America, was chosen to change their minds by any means necessary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shaken, not stirred.
- De Reeka en 06-21-20
De: Henry Hemming
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Secrets of Station X
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Total4 out of 5 stars
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- Nick
- 12-23-14
Great story spoilt by performance
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
The story of Bletchley Park is so fascinating that any history of the accomplishments is worth reading. Highly recommended.
Who was your favorite character and why?
There really is no "star" in the book. Everyone contributed in their own way.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The reading was very disappointing. Whether it was the fault of the performer or his direction is difficult to say. Although the various accents were commendable, the need to read the quotes in a conversational mode lead to very uneven sentences and some very uncalled for pauses.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Neither! It is a factual book of which the history is only now being detailed.
Any additional comments?
Wonderful story that could benefit from being re-recorded.
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- David W
- 09-29-20
Interesting book APPALLINGLY narrated
Many mispronunciations, awful intonation and phrase breaks. Did NO-ONE edit or produce this audiobook?
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