Eccentrics unraveled unbreakable codes ahead of D-Day. Its historians are filling out the picture by drawing on documents recently released from secret archives. Now a museum, Bletchley Park has just opened an exhibition that highlights the impact of its intelligence work on the D-Day landings. Moreover, new angles keep emerging.Īn example is Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking centre that was featured in the 2014 movie The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the mathematician Alan Turing. One reason for this is that some of the extraordinary stories of those wars are being told in ways that appeal to people of different ages.
The fact is that interest in the global conflicts of the 20 th century is increasing, rather than diminishing, with the passage of time. But these will not represent just dutiful remembrance of events long forgotten. The anniversary of D-Day on June 6 will be marked in ceremonies in France and elsewhere. Seventy-five years ago this summer, the course of World War Two decisively turned when hundreds of thousands of soldiers poured into Normandy in the biggest amphibious operation ever seen.
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