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

McKay, Sinclair:

ISBN 10: 1845137639 / ISBN 13: 9781845137632

Editore: London: Aurum Press, 2012

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354 p. Ill. Der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben, ansonsten ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen. / The dust cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a very good and clean copy without markings. // From the blurb text: "Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park during the Second World War lies another secret. Before the messages of the German war machine could be decoded, thousands of young men and women had to locate and monitor endless streams of radio traffic around the clock, and transcribe its Morse code at a speed few have ever managed since. They were part of the 'Y' (for 'Wireless') Service: the Listening Service an organisation just as secret as Bletchley Park, but nowadays still little-known and unrecognised. Without it, however, the Allies would have learned nothing of the enemy's military intentions. Now, in the follow-up to his Sunday Times-bestselling The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, through dozens of interviews with surviving veterans, Sinclair McKay chronicles the history and achievements of this remarkable group of people." / Contents -- 1 Tuning in to the Enemy -- 2 Reporting for Special Duties -- 3 The Human Computors -- 4 The Listeners at Large -- 5 The Blitz and the Ghost Voices -- 6 Heat, Sand and Ashes -- 7 A World Wide Web of Intelligence -- 8 Feuds, Farce and Panic -- 9 Wilder Shores and Secret Missions -- 10 This is No Holiday Camp -- 11 Storms in the Desert -- 12 Rommel and the Art of Dirty Tricks -- 13 Not So Quiet on the Domestic Front -- 14 Life-Long Friendships Were Forged -- 15 By the Sleepy Lagoon -- 16 Foreboding and Frustration -- 17 Witnesses to Different Worlds -- 18 D-Day and After -- 19 The End and the Beginning -- 20 The Legacy of the Listeners -- Notes -- Acknowledgements - Index. ISBN 9781845137632 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 714 Originalleinen mit Originalschutzumschlag / Hardcover with dust jacket.

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• Titolo: The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park.
• Editore: London: Aurum Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845137639
• ISBN 13: 9781845137632
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Sehr gut
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Peso: 714 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • 2. Weltkrieg

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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.

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.