From the archives: A lady codebreaker speaks: Joan Murray, the bombes and the perils of writing Crypto-History from participants' accounts

Cryptologia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 359-370

  Burke, Colin ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agnes Driscoll; Alan Turing; Bombe; Enigma; Joan Clarke; Joan Murray; Joseph Wenger

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956895487     PISSN: 01611194     EISSN: 15581586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01611194.2010.485452     Document Type: Article

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