From a BP email:Though often forgotten about today, the Operation Torch landings were a pivotal event which led to the first battles between...
A podcast from Bletchley Park (1h 20m) and the summary explains:Eighty years ago, in July 1942 the Allies suffered one of their most notorious...
A short article by Tony Comer, ex-GCHQ Historian, on an obscure temporary relationship that starts with:The UK now has a Defence Agreement with...
The BP press officers are at work: Intelligence Factory exhibition sheds light on secret Bletchley Park operation The exhibition opens 28th April...
The Spectator nearly a month ago had a review of this tome (at 960 pgs.), which I overlooked till now. The author is Halik Kochanski (who has...
Thanks to a pointer last week about a USMC POW interrogator, Otis Cary, whose approach was develop trust with them to get results, I had a look...
Another gem from Tony Comer, ex-GCHQ historian: Sigint Historian: Locking a Stable Door A British staff officer, Major Gribble wrote and in...
This week I was lucky to attend a conference on the theme of elicitation of information. Hanns Scharff has been highly praised for the success of...
I know there are threads on The Battle of the Bulge, this new thread was created after a search if the subject was covered - apparently not. The...
A Bletchley Park event 13.00 GMT on Wednesday 17 November; this is the first episode of four and although the episodes will be on YouTube the...
A slightly different topic and not one that appears to have appeared here before. The webinar's full title is: Through Their Own Words: Soviet...
An online, free talk (donations sought) on SCU / SLU:Dr David Abrutat, GCHQ’s Departmental Historian, will reveal the importance of the elaborate...
From a BP email:Hindsight and the lifting of decades of secrecy, allows us to know that by 1945 Bletchley Park had become a ‘codebreaking factory’...
Landed via Twitter:Join us for this free virtual talk where Christian Jennings, author of ‘The Third Reich is Listening’, will reveal the inside...
An article by the book's author, Evert Kleynhans, a South African, which promises much even if many of the official records have disappeared in...
Just found this UCL History PhD thesis, the full title being 'Intelligence and Anglo/American Close Air Support in the Western Desert and Tunisia,...
This notice landed via Twitter and may be of interest. It appears to be the work of USA company and their summary states:From the international...
Just looking to crowd source the creation of an ULTRA distribution (hopefully with details and dates) for quick reference for researchers.
Just stumbled across this event and it has several WW2 topics and all are available free online. See: Chelsea History Festival Today 6-8pm there...
Spotted and forwarded by a "watcher" an article on this book first published in 2014, so unclear why now unless there is a new edition, the cover...
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