When the British military commandeered Bletchley Park in 1939 no one
would have guessed that by 1945 its inmates would have contributed
decisively to the Allied war effort.
A melting pot of Oxbridge dons and maverick oddballs worked night and
day at Station X to decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for
high-level communications. That they succeeded, changing the course of
the war, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British
intelligence into the modern age, as World War II segued into the Cold
War.