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comes the dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team who built the world's first digital electronic computer at Bletchley Park, during a critical time in World War II.Decoding the communication of the Nazi high command was imperative for the success of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Nazi missives were encrypted by the Tunny cipher, a code that was orders of magnitude more difficult to crack than the infamous Enigma code. But Tommy Flowers, a maverick English working-class engineer, devised the ingenious, daring, and controversial plan to build a machine that could think at breathtaking speed and break the code in nearly real time. Together with the pioneering mathematician Max Newman and Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing, Flowers and his team produced--against the odds, the clock, and a resistant leadership--Colossus, the world's first digital electronic computer, the machine that would help bring the war to an end.
About the Author
David A. Price's most recent book, The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company (Knopf, 2008) , was named a Wall Street Journal "Best Book of the Year" and a Fast Company and Library Journal "Best Business Book of the Year."His previous book, Love and Hate in Jamestown (Knopf, 2003) , a history of the Jamestown colony and the Virginia Company, was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" and a School Library Journal "Best Adult Book for Young Adults."He received his bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary and graduate degrees from Harvard and Cambridge. He lives in Richmond, Va.
