"Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma" by David Boyle, is an interesting, insightful look into the life and interests, as well as the journey of this impressive genius. Exploring his demise, as well as preserving his good name, this book was full of information. Thank you NetGalley, the author and publisher for the review copy. All opinions are my own.

I had a super hard time getting into this book. I felt like it was scattered. I needed more information that wasn't available at the beginning of the book. I eventually gave up. Not my writing style or something.

Book received from NetGalley.

Very short book on code breaking at Bletchley Park starting with its beginnings in World War I and the more famous code breakers of World War II. This is the first book I have read about codebreakers though I know a little about them from their service during the Second World War. I especially liked hearing about how it started, I had no idea there were people working on the same thing back in World War I. Some of the things about the subject during World War II may be a bit of a rehash on the subject for those who have already read books on it, I don't really think there is much new material on that era out there to find. It was a quick little book and I liked finding out more about the history of this subject.

These three short but related books cover mostly unknown stories surrounding the breaking of the famous Enigma code. They are well researched, engaging and very well written.

The first book talks about the breaking of the German Naval code in WWI. The lessons learned and many of the people were significant during WWII in Enigma.

The second book covers the efforts to capture an Enigma machine. Ones that finally resulted in success.

The final book is a short life of Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician who helped break Enigma and laid many of the foundations of modern computing.

I loved them all.

I received a free electronic copy of this history from Netgalley, David Boyle, and Endeavour Press in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all, for sharing your hard work with me.

I found it fascinating that the code breakers of the First World War were essential to the success of the code breakers of the Second World War. And that the life of Alan Turing, as short as it was, resulted in establishing so much of the world as we know it, today. This is an excellent who-done-it for those interested in codes and computers and even the growing world-wide acceptance of the LGBT community. This is a book that will go on my research shelf, one I will want to read again at my leisure.

Information about code breakers during WWI was presented in the first third of the book. The remainder was a mixture of biographical information on Turing and WWII code breaking. I was disappointed, as this is a topic of great interest to me, and this book managed to make it rather dull.