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<div><p><b>Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret</b></p><p>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 militarys encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion.</p><p>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.</p></div>
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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 militarys 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.
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Autorenportrait
- <div><p></p><p><b>SINCLAIR MCKAY</b> is the acclaimed author of history and historical true crime including the best-selling<i>The Secret Life of Bletchley Park</i>. HIs previous Aurum titles include<i>Mile End Murder, </i><i>The Lost World of Bletchley Park,</i> <i>The Secret Life of Fighter Command </i>and<i>The Secret Listeners</i> for Aurum, as well as histories of Hammer films and the James Bond films. He writes features for the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> and the <i>Mail on Sunday</i> and lives in London.</p><p></p></div>
Detailansicht
The Secret Listeners
eBook
ISBN/EAN: 9781781310908
Umbreit-Nr.: 4489817
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 352 S.
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Erschienen am 04.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
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