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Geek Atlas - £22.99
(978-0-596-52320-6)
O'Reilly will continue to give 50p for each copy sold in the UK
Bletchley Park, the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and the birthplace of the modern computer, is again in the news thanks to John Graham-Cumming's book The Geek Atlas. O’Reilly pledged to give 50p per copy of the book sold in the UK to the Bletchley Park Fund and we are delighted to send our first cheque for £1000.
Unfortunately not everyone has heard of the plight of Bletchley Park. The Bletchley Park Trust is aiming to preserve the core heritage of the site and to build on the work of the wartime pioneers through education and technology innovation. The Trust does not receive on-going operational funding and therefore is dependent on money generated from donations or any additional on-site or off-site activities such as their online shop to enable it to continue its work.
You might have heard of John’s fight to get a national apology for the inhumane treatment of Alan Turing, one of the main Bletchley Park code breakers who cracked the German Enigma machine which helped shorten the war by around two years, saving countless lives. John Graham-Cumming was successful and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Turing was treated after the war.
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