The Secret Listeners - How the Y Service Intercepted German Codes for Bletchley Park

Sinclair McKay

ISBN 10: 1845137639 / ISBN 13: 9781845137632

Editore: Aurum Press Ltd, London, 2012

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Follow-up to 'The Secret Life of Bletchley Park', telling the story of thousands of young men and women who monitored radio traffic during the Second World War and transcribed the Morse code at incredible speed. 354pp with index, illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs. Silver lettering to spine. Boards very slightly bowed and minor age-toning to edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has slight edge wear and surface marking, otherwise very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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• Titolo: The Secret Listeners - How the Y Service Intercepted German Codes for Bletchley Park
• Editore: Aurum Press Ltd, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845137639
• ISBN 13: 9781845137632
• Rilegatura: Red Cloth Boards
• Edizione: Reprint.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Military History/Military Intelligence
  • World Wars I and II

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

SINCLAIR MCKAY is the acclaimed author of history and historical true crime including the best-selling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park. HIs previous Aurum titles include Mile End Murder, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, The Secret Life of Fighter Command and The Secret Listeners for Aurum, as well as histories of Hammer films and the James Bond films. He writes features for the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday and lives in London.