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The Secret Listeners (häftad, eng)
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret…The men and women of the ‘ Y’ (for Wire...
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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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 352 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Quarto Publishing PLC |
Utgivningsdatum | 2013-07-04 |
ISBN | 9781781310793 |
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- Häftad, 352, Engelska, Quarto Publishing Plc, 2013-07-04, 9781781310793
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