Secret Listeners

How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park

Auteur Sinclair Mckay

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ISBN

9781845137632

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Sinclair Mckay

Uitgeverij

Aurum Press

Jaar van uitgifte

2012

Aantal pagina's

352

Waar gaat het over?

Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret...The men and women of the 'Y' (for Wireless') Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion. Such wartime postings were life-changing adventures - travel out by flying boat or Indian railways, snakes in filing cabinets and heat so intense the perspiration ran into your shoes - but many of the secret listeners found lifelong romance in their far-flung corner of the world. Now, drawing on dozens of interviews with surviving veterans, Sinclair McKay tells their remarkable story at last.

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