The secret listeners: how the Y service intercepted German codes for Bletchley Park / Sinclair McKay
2012, 1st Edition. London: Aurum. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #360744
Physical description: 354 pages: illustrations; 25 cm. Contents: 1. Tuning in to the enemy -- 2. Reporting for special duties -- 3. The human computors -- 4. The listeners at large -- 5. The Blitz and the ghost voices -- 6. Heat, sand and ashes -- 7. A world wide web of intelligence -- 8. Feuds, farce and panic -- 9. Wilder shores and secret missions -- 10. This is no holiday camp -- 11. Storms in the desert -- 12. Rommel and the art of dirty tricks -- 13. No so quiet on the domestic front -- 14. Life-long friendships were forged -- 15. By the sleepy lagoon -- 16. Foreboding and frustration -- 17. Witnesses to different worlds -- 18. D-Day and after -- 19. The end and the beginning -- 20. The legacy of the listeners. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 Secret service Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945; Personal narratives, British. Great Britain Royal Air Force Y Service.
Price: €14.95