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  Prof: Alan Turing Decoded , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 623min

  Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor. But actually Alan Turing was never a professor, and his nickname, 'Prof', was given by his codebreaking friends at Bletchley Park. Now Alan Turing's nephew, Dermot Turing, has taken a fresh look at the influences on Alan Turing's life and creativity and the later creation of a legend. For the first time it is possible to disclose the real character behind the cipher-text: how did Alan’s childhood experiences influence the man? Who were the influential figures in Alan's formative years? How did his creative ideas evolve? Was he really a solitary, asocial genius? What was his wartime work after 1942, and why was it kept even more secret than the Enigma story? What is the truth about Alan Turing's conviction for gross indecency, and did he commit suicide? What is the significance of the Royal Pardon granted in 2013? In Dermot's own style he takes a vibrant and entertaining approach to the life and work of a true genius. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chris Courtenay. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/026586/bk_adbl_026586_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Smoke Signal: A Novella, Hörbuch, Digital, 70min

  Best-selling authors Marie Benedict (The Mystery of Mrs. Christie) and Kate Quinn (The Rose Code) join forces to tell the captivating story of how history's most famous mystery writer crossed paths with one of Britain's top-secret codebreakers in the throes of World War II.    Recruited as a codebreaker of enemy ciphers, ex-debutante Osla Kendall spends her days translating Axis military messages and her nights reading mystery novels. When Osla gets her hands on Agatha Christie's most recent work, N or M?, a mysterious signal within its pages catches her eye, and she and her eccentric book club get in touch with the famous but reclusive writer. Osla's outreach is a welcome distraction for Agatha, who feels restless and underestimated toiling away in a London pharmacy while men like her husband can contribute to the war effort from the frontlines. So begins the story of an unlikely friendship and the secrets that bind two brave women embroiled in war. Based on true events and told by two beloved authors and champions of history's heroines, Smoke Signal is a breathtaking novella of espionage and the unforgettable women who risked everything to serve their country. To learn more about Osla Kendall and Agatha Christie, see Marie Benedict's The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, a novel of Agatha Christie's disappearance in 1926, and Kate Quinn's forthcoming The Rose Code, a novel of the female codebreakers of Bletchley Park. Language: English. Narrator: Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/or/orig/001617/or_orig_001617_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 672min

  This is the incredible tale of Operation Fifth Column, a Second World War MI5 operation so secret that its existence was revealed by the National Archives for the first time only in 2014. Throughout the war and even for a couple of years afterwards, 'Agent Jack' - in reality, a bank clerk named Eric Roberts - acted as a Gestapo agent to whom hundreds of British-based Nazi sympathisers and informers passed their secrets, thinking that he was sending them back to Germany. Many were put on a salary by what they thought was the Third Reich, and some were even 'awarded' Iron Crosses for their services to the Fatherland; they never found out the truth. Among the secrets they tried to pass were: a tip-off about Bletchley Park; details of the deadly Mosquito bomber; and complete plans of a highly effective antiradar technology code named WINDOW. The larger-than-life characters who populate the book include Roberts himself, the deceptively ordinary-seeming bank clerk; Maxwell Knight, who recruited Roberts; Victor Third Baron Rothschild, Roberts' spymaster, who did a sideline in bomb disposal using his Cartier screwdrivers; Theresa Clay, the distinguished biologist who co-ran the operation with Rothschild, but because she was a woman was only ever classified as an 'assistant'; and Marita Perigoe, possibly the most dangerous of the fascists, who despite having her suspicions about Roberts, continued to recruit spies for him and pass him secrets to the end of the war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001851/bk_orio_001851_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Scarlet Nightingale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 612min

  The new novel from Britain's favourite gardener and TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh is a sweeping story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, set in wartime London and Paris.As war rages across Europe, one young woman faces an impossible choice. Will she save her country...or the man she loves? It is the late 1930s. In London, socialite Rosamund Hanbury is determined to give up the parties and social sets of which she is a prominent member to join the war effort, along with scores of other young women. After a stint at Bletchley Park and as one of the Air Transport Auxiliary's 'Atagirls', Rosamund is recruited by the Special Operations Executive under the code name 'The Scarlet Nightingale' and eventually moved in secret to France. There she falls under the charm of Count Thierry Foustier, a gallant Frenchman with a taste for danger and women. But in the high-stakes role of secret agent Rosamund can't trust anyone, for if her true identity is revealed, she will be killed. As the peril of her top-secret operation mounts, Rosamund will be drawn into the very heart of the war, where her love and her loyalty will be put to a test more devastating than she could ever imagine.  Set between wartime London and Paris, this is a thrilling story of love, danger and betrayal from best-selling novelist Alan Titchmarsh.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Titchmarsh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hodd/001928/bk_hodd_001928_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Battle of the Atlantic: World War II: A History from Beginning to End (World War 2 Battles, Book 11) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 60min

  Battle of the Atlantic - World War IIImagine a battlefield of 3000 square miles, with an enemy that was often invisible when it struck. Imagine a convoy of ships carrying vital supplies from North America to Great Britain, at the mercy of the deadly marauders under the water, waiting to attack them. The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest campaign of World War II, took place upon the Atlantic Ocean as the Allies traveled back and forth from North America to Great Britain with desperately needed oil, provisions, weapons, and supplies for the embattled forces fighting against Nazi Germany. The U-boats, the terror of the undersea, made those convoy journeys particularly precarious, especially after Germany’s Admiral Karl Dönitz developed his dreaded wolf pack strategy.You will hear about:The Threat of the German U-BoatsBattleships and the BismarckThe Lend-Lease ProgramThe Downfall of the U-boatsThe Codebreakers who Cracked the Enigma CodeAnd much more!From the start of the war in September 1939 until its end in 1945, the Battle of the Atlantic was fought to keep the Germans from blockading the Atlantic Ocean. The efforts of those valiant seafarers would eventually make D-Day possible, but there were times when even Winston Churchill feared that the prowess of the U-boats would imperil the Allies in their battle against the Nazi menace that had conquered Western Europe. The bravery of the Allied naval crews, and the brilliance of the Bletchley Park codebreakers, prevented the Atlantic Ocean from becoming yet another victim of Nazi dominance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/163195/bk_acx0_163195_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Imitation Game - Ein streng geheimes Leben

  England, zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Der geniale Mathematiker Alan Turing wird vom britischen Geheimdienst engagiert, um den als unentschlüsselbar geltenden Enigma-Code der deutschen Wehrmacht zu knacken. Mit seiner arrogant wirkenden Art macht sich Turing jedoch keine Freunde. Nur die junge Mathematikerin Joan Clarke hält zu ihm. Während Turing fieberhaft an einer Rechenmaschine arbeitet, die Enigma entschlüsseln soll, kommen sich die beiden näher. Doch Turing hat ein wohl gehütetes Geheimnis, welches nicht an die Öffentlichkeit kommen darf.Die Enigma zerbricht den Forschern den Kopf: Das deutsche Kodiergerät verschlüsselt die Funksprüche der Wehrmacht und Marine. Mit Hochdruck arbeiten Mathematiker und andere Forscher im britischen Bletchley Park daran, den deutschen Code zu knacken. Schließlich gelingt einem jungen Genie, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), der Durchbruch – die deutschen Funksprüche sind fortan kein Geheimnis mehr für die Alliierten. Jetzt gilt es jedoch, diesen Fortschritt zum bestgehüteten Geheimnis des Landes zu machen. Nur so kann verhindert werden, dass die Deutschen eine neue Verschlüsselung einsetzen. Turing wird zum gefeierten Star. Doch auch er hat ein Geheimnis, das nicht an falsche Ohren gelangen darf: Er ist homosexuell. Ein ‘Vergehen’, das im Großbritannien dieser Tage mit Haftstrafen und chemischen Kastrationen geahndet wird. Besonders sein Vorgesetzter, der MI6/SIS-Chef Stewart Menzies (Mark Strong), blickt mit Misstrauen auf seinen wichtigsten Geheimnisträger und ist nicht bereit, das leiseste Zeichen von Schwäche zu dulden.

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  In Ways Unimagined: When Country Calls, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 674min

  In Ways Unimagined is the first of two completed novels that comprise Jerome Ostrov’s World War II saga When Country Calls. The story begins in April 1933, shortly after enactment of the Nazi exclusionary laws prohibiting Jews from occupying university positions. Respected anthropologist Anton Sternbloom has determined there is no longer any future for him at the University of Hamburg.Anton and his wife Hannah decide to leave Germany. Anton and his adolescent son Jonathan set sail for England, where one of Anton’s colleagues wants him to teach. However, they are without Hannah, who has insisted on visiting her ailing mother in Danzig, one last time. As Hannah begins a perilous rail trip to the Polish border and Danzig, she reflects on her tearful separation from her husband and son and dreams of being with them in England.Anton and Jonathan, too, long to be reunited with Hannah. But no news comes. As they await word from Hannah, father and son set out to reclaim their lives in their newly adopted country. Haltingly, Anton and Jonathan move forward, burdened by both the uncertainty of Hannah’s fate as well as the anti-Semitic prejudices of the day. Touching on both sides of the Atlantic, the novel follows Anton through the evolving ranks of academia, the rarified precincts of British intelligence, and the code-breaking world of Bletchley Park, as he is propelled to his final duty post in the unforgiving battlefields of 1942 North Africa. Along the way, the listener is introduced to an array of real and fictional characters, whose presence highlights the challenges and perils of a world spiraling out of control. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Sweeney-Bear. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/218861/bk_acx0_218861_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Alan Turing: Unlocking The Enigma , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 123min

  Alan Mathison Turing. Mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, a founder of computer science, and the father of Artificial Intelligence, Turing was one of the most original thinkers of the last century - and the man whose work helped create the computer-driven world we now inhabit. But he was also an enigmatic figure, deeply reticent yet also strikingly naive. Turing's openness about his homosexuality at a time when it was an imprisonable offense ultimately led to his untimely death at the age of only 41. In Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma, David Boyle reveals the mysteries behind the man and his remarkable career. Aged just 22, Turing was elected a fellow at King's College, Cambridge on the strength of a dissertation in which he proved the central limit theorem. By the age of 33, he had been awarded the OBE by King George VI for his wartime services: Turing was instrumental in cracking the Nazi Enigma machines at the top secret code breaking establishment at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. But his achievements were to be tragically overshadowed by the paranoia of the post-War years. Hounded for his supposedly subversive views and for his sexuality, Turing was prosecuted in 1952, and forced to accept the humiliation of hormone treatment to avoid a prison sentence. Just two years later, at the age of 41 he was dead. The verdict: cyanide poisoning. Was Turing's death accidental as his mother always claimed? Or did persistent persecution drive him to take him own life? Alan Turing: Unlocking the Enigma seeks to find the man behind the science, illuminating the life of a person who is still a shadowy presence behind his brilliant achievements. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Barnaby Edwards. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/020549/bk_adbl_020549_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Watling Street , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 744min

  A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia and eventually England and Wales. Armies from Rome arrived and straightened this 444 kilometres of meandering track, which in the Dark Ages gained the name Watling Street. Today, this ancient road goes by many different names: the A2, the A5 and the M6 Toll. It is a palimpsest that is always being rewritten. Watling Street is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Chaucer, Dickens and James Bond. Along this route Boudicca met her end, the Battle of Bosworth changed royal history, Bletchley Park code breakers cracked Nazi transmissions and Capability Brown remodelled the English landscape. The myriad people who use this road every day might think it unremarkable, but, as John Higgs shows, it hides its secrets in plain sight. Watling Street is not just the story of a route across our island but an acutely observed, unexpected exploration of Britain and who we are today, told with wit and flair and an unerring eye for the curious and surprising.PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.  ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Higgs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/orio/001821/bk_orio_001821_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Our Land at War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 817min

  A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain. On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel and evacuee children by the thousands; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds, and firing ranges, and whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, and as horses gave way to tractors and combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new restrictions on what they could and could not grow. Land Girls and Lumber Jills worked in fields and forests. Food - or the lack of it - was a major preoccupation, and rationing strictly enforced. And although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped, and mushrooms gathered, there was still not enough to eat. Drawing from diaries, letters, books, official records, and interviews, Duff Hart Davis revisits rural Britain to describe how ordinary people survived the war years. He tells of houses turned over to military use such as Bletchley and RAF Medmenham as well as those that became schools, notably Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Combining both hardship and farce, the book examines the profound changes war brought to Britain's countryside: from the Home Guard struggling with the provision of ludicrous equipment to the role of the XII Corps Observation Unit, whose task was to enlarge rabbit warrens and badger setts into bunkers for harassing the enemy in the event of a German invasion, to the unexpected tenderness shown by many to German and Italian prisoners of war at work on the land. Fascinating, sad, and at times hilarious, this warm-hearted book tells great stories - and casts new light on Britain during the war. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hugh Kermode. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/002051/bk_hcuk_002051_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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