Bletchley Park and DDay, David Kenyon
Bletchley Park and DDay, David Kenyon
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Bletchley Park and D-Day
The Untold Story of How the Battle for Normandy Was Won

Author: David Kenyon

Narrator: Greg Patmore

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/16/2019

Synopsis

The untold story of Bletchley Park’s key role in the success of the Normandy campaignSince the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis’ codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelligence workers were then involved in making crucial information available to the Allied leaders and commanders who desperately needed it.Using previously classified documents, David Kenyon casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light, as not just a codebreaking establishment but as a fully developed intelligence agency. He shows how preparations for the war’s turning point—the Normandy landings in 1944—had started at Bletchley years earlier, in 1942, with the careful collation of information extracted from enemy signals traffic. This account reveals the true character of Bletchley’s vital contribution to success in Normandy and, ultimately, Allied victory.

About David Kenyon

David Kenyon is the research historian at Bletchley Park. He is coauthor of Digging the Trenches and author of Horsemen in No Man’s Land and Bletchley Park and D-Day.

About Greg Patmore

Greg Patmore became an actor and voice artist in his midforties and has enjoyed a varied career on stage, screen, and in the voice-over studio ever since. Books have always played a huge role in his life. He won an Audie Award in 2019, an Audiofile Earphones Award in February 2019, and was nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2018. Best known on TV as Good ’Lias Hatfield in the Golden Globe and Emmy award–winning Hatfields & McCoys, alongside Kevin Costner, Greg is also a composer and musician, lives as much as possible on a beautiful Dutch Barge somewhere in the middle of France, and is a passionate follower of Rugby League and supporter of the world famous Wigan Warriors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on May 17, 2021

Great book full of wonderful stuff... but so dry... bring a few bottles of water before you start this one.🙄......more

Goodreads review by Melinda on February 09, 2022

Great thorough look at the intelligence work completed through the Bletchley team. Covers from the commencement and progression of their success.......more

Goodreads review by Tyson on December 23, 2024

Extremely well researched and enhanced my knowledge of the work done at Bletchley Park. That said, the author gets frequently bogged down in details which hurts his overall storytelling, something Ben Macintyre has nailed in this genre.......more

Goodreads review by Des on May 15, 2022

This book is a detailed and factual analysis that provides engaging insights on the role of Bletchley Park and it role in the Battle for Normandy Early chapters focus upon the procedures and processes developed by British intelligence and code breakers. The author goes to considerable length to put su......more

Goodreads review by Bruce on January 10, 2022

This is primarily the story of Allied (mostly British) code (cipher) breaking during WWII, and secondarily what impacts it had on the overall war effort and D-Day in particular. It’s focused on German code breaking but includes info about breaking Japanese and other codes as well. What I came away w......more

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