The Secret Listeners

By:

Sinclair Mckay

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London, United Kingdom AURUM PRESS 01 Jul 2013Description: 352 pages Paperback 131 x 197 x 28mm | 276gISBN:

9781781310793

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DDC classification:

McKAY

Summary: 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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Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Senior Library	Fiction	F18 War_Section	McKAY	1	Available	War		SL2019I1529

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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. War

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