Many of the reference works listed below were used as reference in the production of Dayton Codebreakers.

History of Cryptology

The Secret in Building 26, by Colin Burke and reporter Jim DeBrosse of the Dayton Daily News, published by Random House, was released in 2004. Veterans of the project give it very high reviews.

Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex, Colin Burke. 1994. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.This book has been the only other book, to my knowledge that contains detailed information about the work in Dayton.

A booklet, The Cyptanalytic Bombe , by Jennifer Wilcox, Asst. Curator of the NSA Cryptologic Museum is now online. Consult the index of Historical Publications.

Many of the following books credit the British code breakers of Bletchley Park with the entirety of the Allies' cryptanalytic successes but several (especially the first) remain excellent resources.

Battle of Wits: the Complete Story of Codebreakiing in World War II. Stephen Budiansky. 2000. Simon andSchuster.

Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943. David Kahn. 1991. Houghton Mifflin Company.

The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing. David Kahn. 1967. rep. 1996 with additonal information. Scribner.

The Ultra Americans: The U.S. Role in Breaking the Nazi Codes. Thomas Parrish. 1986. Stein and Day.

Diplomacy

The Ultra-Magic Deals and the Most Secret Special Relationship 1940-1946. Bradley F. Smith. 1992. Presidio Press.

Military History

The Chronological Atlas of World War Two.Charles Messenger. Macmillan Publishing Company. orig. publ. 1989.

The Oxford Companion to World War II. general editor I.C.B. Dear. consultant editor M. R. D. Foot. 2001. Oxford University Press.

The Pacific War Encyclopedia. James F. Dunnigan and Albert A. Nofi. 1998. Checkmark Books.

The Battle of the Atlantic and Signals Intelligence: U-Boat Tracking Papers, 1941-1947. ed. David Syrett. 2002. Ashgate Publishiing Ltd. Hants, England.

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors; The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's FinestHour. James D. Hornfischer. 2004. Bantam Books. This book brilliantly portrays the scope of the battle for Leyte.

Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II. John Prados. 1995. Naval Institute Press.

Boolean Algebra, Logic and Basic Electronics

70 Years of Radio Tubes and Valves; a Guide for Electronic Engineers, Historians and Collectors. John W. Stokes. 1982. The Vestal Press Led. Vestal, NY.

Dreaming in Code; Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4732 Bugs and One Quest for Transcendent Software. Scott Rosenberg. 2007. Crown Publishers. New York.

How to Read Schematics. 4th Edition. Donald E. Herrington. 1986. Howard W. Sams & Co., Indianapolis, IN.

The Way Things Work. David Macaulay. 1988. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston MA.

Understanding Solid State Electronics. 5th edition. Don L. Cannon. 1991. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ.