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Anthony J Randall examines the life of Joan Clarke and her role in breaking the Naval Enigma at Bletchley Park, alongside Alan Turing. An outstanding mathematician, Joan was the daughter of an Anglican priest and the granddaughter of the Archbishop of Melbourne.
Having been recruited by GC&CS at the beginning of the war, Joan stayed with what then became GCHQ until well past retirement age. She worked on the unmasking of Philby, Burgess and Maclean, and on the decryption of intercepted Soviet communications during the Cold War.
For ten years she lived 'very quietly' surrounded by the technology of the Cold War and the Early Warning systems installed on the east coast of Scotland, only to return to GCHQ in the early 1960s to take up a new position at Cheltenham, as though nothing had happened during the intervening years.
Portrayed by Keira Knightley in the Hollywood film The Imitation Game, in reality Joan Clarke was the quiet woman of British Security; a role she played for forty-five years.
Contents
Foreword. Clarke Family Tree. 1 Lambeth Conference 1. 2 Lymington in the New Forest 11. 3 Aunt and Grandfather 21. 4 Growing Up in the Shadows 31. 5 HMS Gleaner and U-33 43. 6 HMA Griffin and VP2623/Polaris 53. 7 Operation Claymore 62. 8 The Fourth Rotor and U-559 72. 9 Operation Overlord 82. 10 Eastcote GCHQ 92. 11 Alan Turing and a Proposal 102. 12 Crail and the Cold War 112. 13 Medals and Numismatics 122. 14 Cheltenham and Oxford 132. 15 Publishing the Secrets 142. 16 The End Game 148. Footnote 158. Appendix A Notable Persons 161. Appendix B Selected Documents 170. Appendix C Family Photographs 176.
