The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park

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 int...