SECRET LISTENERS, THE

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 milit
ary's encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mans
ion. Such wartime postings were life-changing adventures - travel out by flying
boat or Indian railways, snakes in filing cabinets and heat so intense the persp
iration ran into your shoes - but many of the secret listeners found lifelong ro
mance in their far-flung corner of the world. Now, drawing on dozens of intervie
ws with surviving veterans, Sinclair McKay tells their remarkable story at last.