The Bletchley Girls, by Tessa Dunlop
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The Bletchley Girls, by Tessa Dunlop
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'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail'An in-depth picture of life in Britain's wartime intelligence centre...The result is fascinating, and is made all the more touching by the developing friendships between Dunlop and her interviewees.' Financial TimesThe women of Bletchley Park have a unique story to tell. Although critical to the success of the project to break the German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, their contribution has been consistently overlooked and undervalued. Through unprecedented access to surviving veterans, this book reveals how life at 'The Park' and its outstations was far removed from the glamorous existence usually portrayed. The women speak vividly of their lives in the 1930s, why they were selected to work in Britain's most secret organisation, and the challenges of re-entry into civilian life. Forbidden to talk about their vital war work, they often found it hard to adjust to the expectations of both their immediate families and society as a whole.By spending time with these fascinating female secret-keepers who are still alive today, Tessa Dunlop captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult world of war, secrecy, love and loss. Through the voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers. The Bletchley Girls is the story of the women behind Britain's ability to consistently outsmart the enemy.
The Bletchley Girls, by Tessa Dunlop- Amazon Sales Rank: #175225 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-03
- Released on: 2015-11-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.75" h x 1.00" w x 5.00" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.―Daily MailAn in-depth picture of life in Britain's wartime intelligence centre...The result is fascinating, and is made all the more touching by the developing friendships between Dunlop and her interviewees.―Financial Times
About the Author Award winning broadcaster and historian, Tessa Dunlop has presented several series and one-off documentaries for BBC TV including 'Thames Shipwrecks', 'Coast' and 'Inside Out'. She has authored and presented several documentaries for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service and has written for almost all the major national newspapers. She received the Gertrude Easton History prize whilst at Oxford University, got a 1st in her MA: Imperialism and Culture and has been awarded a PhD scholarship at Sheffield Hallam University.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating but flawed By Jay Howard I applaud Tessa Dunlop for giving us this opportunity to hear the Bletchley women’s stories, so long untold – as is the case in so much written history. She has given me a fuller picture than I expected, telling not only about their time at Bletchley but giving insights into their backgrounds, how they came to be selected to work there and what happened in their lives afterwards. I hadn’t previously considered how hard it must have been for them not being able to tell family and friends what their part in the nation’s war efforts had been; everyone else had stories to tell, but not these women, forbidden to break their silence by the Official Secrets Act. It is wonderful to know that in recent years they are not only being appreciated by the general population but have themselves gained greater understanding of how vital their work was. Tessa Dunlop’s interpretations and recounting of these women’s lives is faithful to the facts and the feelings and perceptions of these women. Her prose is flowing and vivid, giving an engaging insight into other times, other circumstances. However, I have a few reservations.It was a fascinating read but I feel it is a partially missed opportunity. Certainly in the first two thirds of the book the majority of the writing is the author’s interpretation of what she was told, as I would expect from a historian. Tessa Dunlop had in-depth interviews with these women, developed a real empathy and friendships with them. However, there are only limited quotes from the women; their own words were used merely to corroborate what the author had already interpreted for us. Whilst I agree that the background information Tessa Dunlop gave us was essential to my achieving a fuller understanding of the time and the place these women had in the success story that was Bletchley’s, I would have much preferred to read more of what the women themselves had to say and draw my own conclusions. The last third of the book was much better in this regard.Another irritation for me was the constant use of the term ‘girls’; I understand why the title was chosen – that was how young women were often referred to then, and at one point Pam refers to herself and her co-workers as ‘girls’ – but that was then: Tessa Dunlop is writing in the 21st century from interviews conducted in the past few years. Would she have used ‘boys’ to refer to the men working at Blethcley? This is not a novel with a setting in the 1940s; these were young women, not girls, and I consider it an anachronism to call them ‘girls’ when writing about them now. I’m sure no disrespect was intended but that is how it appears. This was also corrected in the last third of the book.My final niggle is the presentation of this work. This is not a cheap e-book so I expected much more professional punctuation and formatting for Kindle.My mental rating is 3.5 rounded up to 4.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. "The Bletchley Girls": A sociological study By S. Morrison "War, secrecy, love and loss" is the subheading under the title of the book. Just my kind of book! The publisher, demanding that the author write only about the Bletchley girls who were still living and could tell their own stories, seemed to be trying to assure warmth and human drama. But in writing about these 15 living women, author Tessa Dunlop produces more of a sociological treatise than a book about real women. The women are young and, for the most part, middle class, away from home for the first time and setting new precedents for British women as they enter the critical program of code-breaking, recording and collecting at Bletchley. The amount of secrecy under which the women agreed to join in and continue the work in progress amazes me. They didn't even know what they were going to be doing after they were recruited and screened for the jobs and they couldn't talk about it once they started. In fact, I the reader, still don't know exactly what some of them were doing except that it was a mindlessly boring matching of pluses and zeroes for many of them. The young women far outnumbered the middle-aged professors who were the brains of the outfit and there doesn't seem to have been much promiscuity at Bletchley. Even when a young woman had a fiancee on the outside who was killed in action, their story was coldly reported as if in a newspaper column.I guess an author has to make a major decision about how to tell the story of 15 different women in a single book. Does she treat each woman individually, in a separate chapter, or does she write about them consecutively according to topic? I think a great weakness of this book is that the author chose not to treat each woman individually per chapter, but told their stories by topic, such as the uniforms they wore; the great secrecy they had to maintain, their housing problems, the monotony of the work, etc. In doing so, the women rarely came to life in the book and the characters seemed composed of factual bits and pieces.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Enjoyable with reservations By Heath Ellens I was a little disappointed .The book seemed a bit disjointed, there seemed to be no flow between chapters or any build up. By the end I did not feel that I knew much more about the Bletchley girls than when I began, I was hoping for a more 'intimate " feeling through out.
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