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 in "RAW" and "Drawn and Quarterly" in the 1990s. In 2010 it was translated in English as "It Was the War of the Trenches" and published by Fantagraphics. It won two Eisner Awards for "Best Reality-Based Work" and "Best U.S. Edition of International Material". Tardi published another two-volume graphic novel about World War I named "Putain de Guerre" (2008, translated as "Fuck this War!"). 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