Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Send a text In January 1917, a German encrypted message was intercepted by a small relay station in Cornwall and passed to the secretive world of the code breakers inhabiting the dingy Room 40 in the Admiralty building in London's Whitehall. In the room were some of the finest minds in England, led by the enigmatic and charismatic Oxbridge scholar Albert "Dilly" Knox. The team, including a man known as "The Dormouse" and a cake-loving Vicar called Monty, decrypted the message, an...