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LIVE MILITARY AUTOGRAPH AUCTION RARE PRINTS, BOOKS, BATTLE OF BRITAIN, LUFTWAFFE, UBOATS, BOMBER COMMAND, MEDALS.
By Chaucer Auctions
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May 31, 2024
Unit 1, Bowles Well Gardens, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6PQ
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LOT 7:
Codebreaking in Bletchley Park signed by Asa Briggs WW2 Secret Days hardback book with dust jacket. Signed on ...
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Codebreaking in Bletchley Park signed by Asa Briggs WW2 Secret Days hardback book with dust jacket. Signed on bookplate inside. During the Second World War, from 1942 to 1945, Briggs served in the Intelligence Corps and worked at the British wartime signals intelligence station, Bletchley Park. He was a member of the Watch in Hut 6, the section deciphering Enigma machine messages from the German Army and Luftwaffe. That posting had arisen because Briggs had played chess at college with Cambridge mathematician Howard Smith (who was to become the Director General of MI5 in 1979), and Smith had written to the head of Hut 6, Gordon Welchman, who was also a Cambridge mathematician, recommending Briggs to him. Good Condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
