The Secret Listeners : The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park

by McKay, Sinclair | United Kingdom, Great Britain
Published 04/07/2013 by Aurum Press in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 352 pages
196 x 129 x 23mm | 308g

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.