The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park (Signed)

McKay, Sinclair

ISBN 10: 1845137639 / ISBN 13: 9781845137632

Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd, 2012

Beschreibung

Signed by Author(s) A fine book in a fine DW. This is the authors follow up book to the very successful "The Secret Life of Bletchley Park". This is the story of the "Y" service. Y for wireless the people that were sent to all parts of the world to listen in to the secret messages that were being transmitted by the enemy during World War II, then passing that information back to Bletchley Park. It's also quite a human story with a short but excellent Bibliography. Signed & dated, Sinclair McKay - Oct 12.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1658346428779

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park (Signed)
• Verlag: Aurum Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1845137639
• ISBN-13: 9781845137632
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: ISigned by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.