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Fair enough, and I am sure it is, because Turing was an amazing man. However he was not alone at Bletchley Park and Flowers and Tutte (another mathematician) who designed and built Colossus (which unlike Turing's bombe machine) was programmable should not be ignored in the rush to venerate...

You are correct, however my point was that appeasement was generally the political orthodoxy in the 30s across the political divide. George Lansbury who was Labour leader in the 30s was an avowed pacifist who advocated the disbandment of the whole armed services, MacDonald was also a pacifist...

Indeed, and the puppets in charge would be passionately supported by people who advocate the end of British sovereignty and the transfer of power to an unelected European elite further distant from Britain and it's long history of democracy. The Norwegians had a word for those people in WW2.

Hope the book is better than the film.........which is full of historical inaccuracies and glib political correct sentimentality. For one, to not even mention Tommy Flowers role is outrageous.........quite why the contribution and equal genius of a working class lad from the east end of London...

The likes of Chamberlain and Halifax (Tories) were responsible for the final stages of appeasement culminating in a possible settlement with Hitler in 1940, however that should not mean Britain's left wing politicians were paragons of political virtue. Ramsay MacDonald's Labour Govt started the...