Already a successful hardback, The Debs of Bletchley Park and other stories - from the pen of Michael Smith - has now received its paperback release.
Although the public fascination with Britain's wartime codebreakers shows no sign of abating, one major area of Bletchley Park has so far received less focus than it deserves.
At the peak of Bletchley's success, a total of 12000 people worked there, of whom 9000 were women.
From the debutantes who chauffeured the boffins to and from work or, like Baroness Trumpington, were employed as filing clerks, to the mass of girls from ordinary working families who operated machines or listed endless streams of figures, together these brave women cracked German messages, largely unaware of the major impact their work was having on the war.
The Debs of Bletchley Park and other stories tells their tale; how they came to be there, the lives they gave up to do 'their bit' for the war effort, and the part they played in the vital work of Station X.
The women were essential cogs in a very large machine that ensured the codebreakers' vital intelligence reached the commanders - who used it to help win the war.
It's an incredible part of history that unfolded right here in the area we now call Milton Keynes.
Smith's release is out now through Aurum Press, priced at £9.99.
