So my assigned fic for this year's Yuletide was Statistical Methods in Risk Assessment, a Bletchley Circle fic. Bletchley Circle is an extremely historically-grounded mystery series about the aftermath of WWII and the codebreakers at Bletchley, which meant that I spent a fair bit of November and December falling down a wartime Britain research hole ( Read more... )

There are certain persons probably reading this (
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I feel like I spent so much time cackling to people in person after I read Operation Mincemeat that I completely forgot I hadn't actually written it up on here, like, no, self, describing the contents of the book to at least ten separate people is not in fact the same AT ALL as putting it on the internet. For those who are reading this entry ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Ben MacIntyre's Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, a book about the double agents who fed the German intelligence service a constant stream of misinformation to keep them from doing anything about D-Day.

So I think I first heard about this book when
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