One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- In just a few days, a Pittsburgh woman will be celebrating a major milestone; she'll be 100-years-old! Julia Parsons has committed much of her life to her family, service, and ...

The Oscar-nominated film "The Imitation Game" may fudge some of the facts and amp up the drama to appeal to Hollywood audiences, but there's still a lot the film gets right about the Allied effort to ...

It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...

“You are the blank canvas. You pick the colors and we choose how to use them.” These poetic words were uttered by one Sebastian Lyall when I caught up with him at his new venture. Lyall is the Founder ...

BLETCHLEY Park was the central site for Britain’s codebreakers during the Second World War, and is now earmarked for a new generation of code crackers. It famously housed Alan Turing and the team he ...

LONDON -- A British woman cracked a key component of Germany's top-secret Enigma encoding machine before World War II began, but her supervisors dismissed her theory as too simple, according to a new ...

A legend of British technology and engineering who played a key part in the Second World War effort will be granted a posthumous pardon, the Guardian reports. The UK government has hinted it'll ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

One of the rarest surviving Enigma cipher machines has sold at auction for a record price of US$463,500. An artifact of one of the most exciting episodes of World War II, the fully operational Enigma ...

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...