Breaking the Code Breaking the Code Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II and a pioneer of computer science. The play thematically links Turing's cryptographic activities with his attempts to grapple with his homosexuality. It was adapted as a 1996 television film directed by Herbert Wise, with Derek Jacobi reprising his stage role as Turing. Following an eight-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London's West End beginning on 21 October 1986, the play
It Was the War of the Trenches It Was the War of the Trenches It Was the War of the Trenches (original title: "C'était la guerre des tranchées") is a 1993 graphic novel by Jacques Tardi about World War I. It is acclaimed as one of his best works and received praise from Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco. Paul Gravett listed it in his "1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die". "C'était la guerre des tranchées" was pre-published in "A Suivre". The novel is a series of anecdotal stories set in the trenches of World War One. Many are based on stories Tardi remembered from his