The list below provides details of some of the the books, booklets etc which we have for sale relating to Bletchley Park, Bombes, Ciphers, Codes and Codebreaking, Colossus, Cryptography, Enigma, Ultra and the Y Service.

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WANTED - screwdriver and ink bottle for M209.

                   - THEY DID NOT FAIL (book)

                   - RAGBAG OF MEMORIES (book by Ratcliff)

                   - Postcards by Frith of Bletchley Park, published 1950s/1960s

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BERENDS, A A. Chasing Enigma: procurement of German Army ENIGMA messages in the North West Europe campaign 1944-45. Ancestral Pubns, 1995 [but later reprint]. ii, 29. Stout textured card covers lettered in gilt. F. £8.50
** Intercepting wireless traffic as German armies retreated across Europe.

BRZEZINSKI, Prof Z (intro by). Rejewski 1905-1980: living with the Enigma secret. Bydgoszcz, 2005.

215 x 155. 288 pages, illd (some col). Hard binding, dustwrapper. F. £30

** 15 experts contribute to this volume, to commemorate the centenary of the great code-breaker's birth.

CRAGON. Harvey G. From Fish to Colossus: how the German Lorenz cipher was broken at Bletchley Park. Dallas, Texas: Cragon Books, 2003. 295 x 210. 146; illd with photos and drgs, index. Card covers. F. £13.50

**The most complete and accessible account of the breaking of Lorenz.

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Imported from Germany - facsimile reprint of original Enigma document

CHIFFRIERMASCHINEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT. Enigma Chiffriermaschinen. Berlin: CA, not dated
(c1925). 145 x 210. 20 pages, illd. Cream card covers.
Sales brochure for the original commercial machine.

All the text is (naturally) in German. An unusual opportunity to acquire primary reference material.

We offer this booklet at £4
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BLETCHLEY PARK TRUST REPORTS. All VG, stapled into card covers, various authors.

Please note: some titles go out of print from time to time.
No 1: Codebreaking with Colossus. £2.50
No 2: The German Battleships. £2.50
No 3: Codebreaking with the Colossus Computer: the statistical methods for finding the settings for the Lorenz Cipher machine. (2nd edn). £3
No 4: Codebreaking with Colossus: finding the K-wheel patterns. £6
No 5: Getting back into "Shark": HMS Petard and the George Cross. £2.50
No 6: Japanese Codes. £2.50
No 7: Convoys & the U-Boats. £2.50
No 8: Bletchley Park and the Luftwaffe. £2.50
No 9: The Enigma Machine & the Bombe: breaking Enigma 1932-1945. £2.50
No 10: The first breaking of Enigma. £2.50
No 11: How the Enigma secret was nearly revealed. £2.50
No 12: The Post Office at War and Fenny Stratford Repeater Station. £2.50 No 13: Black Propaganda. £2.50
No 14: Naval events and Enigma, 1942-3. £2.50
No 15: Some Polish contributions in WW2. £2.50
No 16: The Turing Bombe. £4
No 17: Funkers & Sparkers: the origins of the Y Service. £2.50
No 18: The Invasion of 1940. £2.50
No 19: Captain Oswald Tuck and the Bedford Japanese School. £2.50
No 20: The Admiralty Operational Intelligence Centre. £2.50

No 21: Fishing for Tunny. £2.50
No 22: Naval Intelligence in the Napoleonic Wars. £2.50

Hist Guide No 1: Early history of Bletchley Park, 1235-1937. £2.50

Guide No 2: Guide Francais a Bletchley Park. £1

Guide No 3: Deutsches Parkfuhrer. £1

BUTTERS, Lindsey. Bletchley Park: home of Station X. Pitkin, 2000. 240 x 170. [16] pages (inc card covers), illd. F. £2.50
** High quality guide book, excellently produced.

CALVOCORESSI, Peter. Top Secret Ultra. Baldwin, 2001, new revised edn. 158 pages, 18 illustrations, biblio, index. Full-col card covers. £6.50

** Out of print for years, but now available again, completely revised (much re-written) by the author, with new illustrations. Calvocoressi was an RAF Intelligence Officer at Bletchley, so this is one of the very few books written out of first-hand experience at that important site.

DAVIES, Donald W. The Bombe - a remarkable logic machine. Royal Holloway Coll, 1999. 37, 13 figs. A5, tapled into card covers. F. £3

The ENIGMA Bulletin is an illustrated A5 card-covered periodical published in Poland (but most of the articles are in English). It is devoted to the study of the Enigma machine, its deciphering, and related intelligence topics. So far published are:
Vol 1 (Dec 1990). 72pp. Includes 'The French Contribu-tion to the Breaking of Enigma' by BLOCH, 'Polish Radio Intelligence in the Battle of Monte Cassino' by LISICKI, and 'The Polish Cipher Machine "Lacida"' by GAJ.
Vol 2 (May 1997). 120pp. Includes 'International Historiography about Signal Intelligence' by ROHWER, 'Cicero, Dulles and Philby' by [Robin] DENNISTON, 'The Development of Typex' by ERSKINE, and 'Operation Apollo' by SHPIRO.
Vol 3 (May 1998). 125pp. Includes 'A British Cryptanalyst Salutes the Polish Cryptanalysts' by STRIPP, 'The Role of Cryptologic Intelligence in the Pacific War, 1941-43' by BOYD, 'Counter-intelligence along the . . Carpathian frontier: . . a note on Hamann, head of Gestapo . .' by KAPERA.
Vol 4 (March 1999). 168pp. Special issue devoted entirely to detailed article by KOHNEN 'Commanders Winn and Knowles: winning the U-Boat war with intelligence 1939-1943'. Includes 46 photos, many of which were only declassified in late 1998.
Vol 5 (June 2000). 96pp. Includes 'German Clandestine Intelligence in the 1920s' by KOZACZUK, 'Early Machine Cipher in Switzerland' by RITTER and 'The Enigma-Uhr' by ULBRICHT.
Vol 6 (Oct 2002). 96pp. Special issue entitled 'Before Ultra there was Gale: some contributions to the history of the Polish Enigma, 1932-1942' by KAPERA.
Prices: Vol 4 £15, others £13 each. Deduct £1 per volume if two or more ordered together.
** Photocopied lists of contents supplied on request.

The Enigma Stamp. A mint copy of the only stamp to be issued by any country to commemorate the story of Enigma. This 5-zloty stamp was issued by Poland in 1983 to mark the 50th anniversary of the breaking of the German military Enigma ciphers by the great Polish mathematicians - Rejewski, Rozycki and Zygalski. £1

KAPERA, Zdzislaw. Marian Rejewski: Pogromca Enigmy. Krakow: Enigma Press, 2005. 205 x 145. 96; illd. Full col card covers. Fine. £7.50

** [In Polish]. To commemorate the great Polish codebreaker and his work on the Enigma ciphers.

KAPERA, Zdzislaw (ed). Wklad Polskiego Wywiadu . . . [i.e. The Contribution of Polish Intelligence to the Allied Victory in World War II.] Cracow: Polish Academy of Sciences & Letters, 2004. vii + 408 pages; illd. Gpb. F. £20

** In Polish, with brief English abstracts at end of each of the 17 papers.

KEEN, John. Harold 'Doc' Keen and the Bletchley Park Bombe. Baldwin, 2003. 210 x 145. 89; 23 illns. Card covers. New. £6

** The builder of the 'Bombe', by his son.

LUKE, D. My Road to Bletchley Park. Baldwin, 2005, new edn. 210 x 145. 53pp, illd. Card covers. New. £5

** New edition of only book written by a WOP/MSR at Bletchley.

OAKLEY, B. The Bletchley Park War Diaries, July 1939 - August 1945.  Wynne Press, 2006. A4. 188 pages, some 2-col printing, in plastic comb binding. £15

** Immensely detailed month-by-month account of the war, demonstrating BP's contribution.

PERERA, Tom.  The Story of Enigma CD-ROM. 4th edn. 2007. Over 1300 pictures, and masses of other information on the Enigma machine. £8.50

Pocket Enigma. A well-designed device, which can be used for encryption and decryption analogously to an Enigma machine (although it only has a single rotor.) With excellent instructions, it is mounted in a clear plastic CD case. £5
** Simulates a remarkable number of the features of the real Enigma machine (and is a little cheaper).

SALE, Tony. The Colossus Computer 1943-1996, and how it helped to break the German Lorenz cipher in WII. Baldwin, 2003. 17; [5] photos. Card covers. F. £3

STUBBINGTON, J. Bletchley Park Air Section: Signals Intelligence support to RAF Bomber Command. Combined Bombing Offensive 1943-1945, with the 8th US Army Air Force, including Y-Service Special Intelligence and No 100 (Bomber Support) Group Radio Countermeasures. Alton, Hants; Minerva, 2007.

A4. Card covers. x + 139 pages; illd.  £17

WELCHMAN, Gordon. The Hut Six Story: breaking the Enigma codes. Baldwin, 2000 reprint.
New, amended and extended edition. xiv, 263; illd, index. Full-colour card covers. £8.50
** Authoritative account of the breaking of German Army and Air Force Enigma codes. In place of the original section on 1980s Cold War strategies, we have added Welchman's final thoughts on his war work (a 40-page paper published in 1986), a Foreword by Alan Stripp, and a brief biography.

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