Mind Men

Men with brilliant minds fought a war in the ether, fighting an invisible war.

Using maths to crack enemy codes of unbelievable complexity.

Making sure they were never found out.

Enigma and Lorenz were cracked by pure brain power.

Mathematics being the power of intelligence, enemy codes saying everything.

Hidden no more.

Lists of army units and air force orders of battles.

Giving us an ability to forewarn our allies of impending attacks.

To defeat him and win the war.

Misplaced Nazi faith in machines when people were not trusted led to their end.

Paranoia and eventual defeat waiting in the wings.

Our brilliant minds made a new invention, a computer!

Colossus.

Still in use in the sixties.

Against the Russians.

Our great minds and machines fought a new war of silence in the Cold War.

Russian ally turned new enemy.

For decades our top minds were ordered to keep silent.

But now we know part of their story, secrecy partly lifted.

Without our Bletchley Park code breakers how many lives would have been lost?