The Imitation Game Christopher soon dies from tuberculosis. When Britain declares war on Germany in 1939, Turing travels to Bletchley Park. Under the direction of Commander Alastair Denniston, he joins the cryptography team of Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, Peter Hilton, Keith Furman and Charles Richards. The team are trying to decrypt the Enigma machine, which the Nazis use to send coded messages. Turing is difficult to work with, and considers his colleagues inferior; he works alone to design a machine to decipher Enigma. After Denniston refuses to fund construction of the machine, Turing writes to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who puts Turing in
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