Here is Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
I cannot remember if I have told my readers that my son has been living the last year and a half in China. And as much as grandparents and aunts would like him to come home, he wants to stay. Me? He's a man. He needs to do what he wants. He teaches English there and is learning Mandarin. Here are a few of his photos from the past couple of months.
Walking the neighborhood where he lives in Foshan during the quarantine. Everywhere it's deserted. However, things are slowly going back to normal.
View outside his apartment.
The Secret Lives of Codebreakers: The Men and Women Who Cracked the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
During WWII England's MI6 recruited men and women from every walk of life to help break the German's code Enigma, in order to find out their battle plans and hopefully save lives, not to mention win the war.
Sinclair McKary introduces us to each person and type of person that was chosen to break Germany's enigma code.
Naturally people fluent in German as well as math professors. One prominent code breaker was Alan Turing. Others were people to become famous later in life, such as Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, and Roy Jenkins, who wrote a fair biography of Churchill. I can say that because I read it. Apparently he was only a fair code breaker as well, according to those who worked with him.
We learn about the women, both aristocratic and middle class, or labor class who joined Bletchely Park to break Germany's code. We learn about living conditions, what they ate, their successes, their failures. Much of it reads like a high suspense novel.
Some of it dragged a little, but I think McKay wanted to be thorough.
I recommend this book to those interested in WWII and cryptology.
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4 comments:
Often when I read or see documentaries about World War II, the code breakers are often mentioned. Often their role is mentioned as vital to winning the war. I would like to read this book in order to get the complete picture.
Hopefully your son stays well.
HI, Sophie! good for Derek: he found something that suits him and is doing it! spectacular pictures! i've been a bit envious of people who have those talents; they're really special, but mysterious...
Hi Brian
You would enjoy this book. I'd like to read more books about the code breakers. These were British code breakers and I'd like to read about American ones too.
Hi mudpuddle,
yes, people like that are mysterious. I used to want to visit every country in the world, but now I'm slowing down and content to read about those countries.
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