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
The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton. Taylor had previously written "The Struggle for Mastery in Europe", which covered the period 1848 until 1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography: I wanted to be writing something and decided that I could carry on my diplomatic history from the point where the "Struggle for Mastery" left off. I had, I thought, done most of the