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The Secret Listeners
The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park
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The Secret Listeners
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret.
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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 in The Secret Listeners.
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Sinclair McKay's The Secret Listeners highlights the overlooked efforts of the Y Service during World War II, whose intercepts were crucial for the success of Bletchley Park's codebreakers. The book is praised for bringing to light the significant, yet secretive, contributions of ordinary men and women whose wartime work was both pivotal and often unrecognised, even by their families. McKay's narrative, filled with personal recollections and engaging episodes, draws a parallel to his previous work on Bletchley Park, offering a fresh perspective on familiar wartime history.
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ISBN: 9781781310793
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 July 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Aurum
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 352
About the Author
Sinclair McKay writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and The Secret Listeners and has written books about James Bond and Hammer horror for Aurum. His next book, about the wartime 'Y' Service during World War II, is due to be published by Aurum in 2012. He lives in London.
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