Talk:F. W. Winterbotham
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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 04:14, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
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The article is silent on Winterbotham's life after the war, except for his books. He was only 48 when the war ended and you might imagine that he continued working for MI6, but the Guardian obituary on 1 February 1990 quotes Air Marshal Sir John Slessor's foreword to The Ultra Secret in 1974: 'It is a curious reflection on our system of honours and awards that he should have finished up after the war as a retired Group Captain with a CBE on a quiet farm in Devon.' https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-guardian/36750765/ He must have had permission at the highest level to publish The Ultra Secret, which dramatically altered the historiography and public understanding of the Second World War, but there doesn't seem to be any known paper trail regarding that. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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