The Case of Alan Turing
The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker
2015
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Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of Turing and his colleagues at Hut 8 created what became known as the "bombe" which descrambled the German navy's messages and saved countless lives and millions in British goods and merchandise. Despite his heroics, however, Turing led a secret life as a homosexual. After a young man with whom he was involved stole money from him, he went to the police, where he confessed his homosexuality; he was charged with gross indecency, and only avoided prison after agreeing to undergo chemical castration. Tragically, he committed suicide two years later. Authors Liberge and Delalande used once-classified information only available in 2012 to create a biography that is scientifically rigorous yet understandable for the lay reader. It's also a meticulous depiction of World War II, and an intimate portrayal of a gay man living in an intolerant world. Delving deeper into Turing's life than The Imitation Game, this graphic novel is a fascinating portrait of this brilliant, complicated, and troubled man. Eric Liberge has authored or co-authored over thirty graphic novels in his native France, including books on Versailles and World War II. Arnaud Delalande is the author of nine novels as well as numerous graphic novels in France, including Le Piege de Dante (Dante's Trap), translated into twenty languages.
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Éric Liberge
Author · 8 books
Né en 1965, Éric Liberge déclare avoir toujours dessiné. Depuis 1977, il hantait déjà ses feuilles volantes avec des fresques entières de petits squelettes. En 1996 il se lance dans le projet Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres. Ce sont les revues "PLG", "Ogoun" et "Golem" qui, les premières, acceptent de publier quelques courts extraits du Petit monde du Purgatoire. Achevé en 1998, le tome 1, Bienvenue !, est publié par Zone créative. Prix René Goscinny 1999, l'album est réédité chez Pointe Noire. En 2002, après trois albums, il met de côté sa série phare et publie Tonnerre Rampant puis Métal, chez Soleil dans la collection Latitudes. En 2004, les éditions Dupuis rééditent les trois premiers volumes de Monsieur Mardi-Gras Descendres qui sont suivis en 2005 par la sortie du quatrième et dernier volume inédit. Par ailleurs, Éric Liberge démarre en 2003 une collaboration en cinq tomes avec Denis-Pierre Filippi, Les Corsaires d'Alcibiade chez Dupuis dont l'action se situe dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. En 2008, il publie Aux heures Impaires, un album carte-blanche sur le musée du Louvre aux éditions Futuropolis. Son nouveau projet en auteur complet, L'Empire du rêve est un regard sur la violence des hommes en temps de guerre à travers une croisée de destins pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, est prévu chez Dupuis pour le printemps 2011.
Arnaud Delalande
Author · 17 books
Arnaud Delalande (born in Lusaka, Zambia in 1971) is a French author and comic book writer.
