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WW2 Bletchley Park Codebreaker Charlotte Webb signed book Secret Postings Bletchley Park to the Pentagon book by Charlotte Webb. Charlotte Elizabeth Webb (née Vine-Stevens; 13 May 1923 - 31 March 2025) was an English code breaker who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II from the age of 18. In 1941 she joined the British Auxiliary Territorial Service. She said, of joining the top-secret mission at Bletchley, I wanted to do something more for the war effort than bake sausage rolls. Upon arrival at Bletchley Park, she was tasked with cataloguing encrypted German radio messages intercepted by the British, contributing to the breaking of the German cipher Enigma. While a bulk of Bletchley Park workers were assigned to one of the huts, such as Hut 3, Hut 11, Webb was mainly situated in the Mansion belonging to Major Tester's department and Block F, the Japanese section. In Major Tester's department, some tasks performed include registering messages on little cards, which Webb believes totalled 10,000 a day in the whole park, and organizing the cards into shoeboxes according to a strict order so they could be retrieved efficiently when called for. In Block F, she worked on intercepted Japanese messages, something she excelled at so much that she was later sent to Washington to support the American war effort. All recruits to Bletchley Park were taken into a room and asked to read and then sign the Official Secrets Act before they could begin their work. The strict secrecy meant workers could not share what they did at work with their families, friends, or even with their fellow Bletchley workers. Only after the veil of secrecy was partially lifted, in the late 1970s, were Betty Webb and others who had worked at Bletchley, finally able to understand what had really been going on at the site. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99