TY  - BOOK
AU  - MCKAY Sinclair
TI  - Secret listeners: how they service intercepted the German codes for bletchley park 
SN  - 9781845137632 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Aurum Press Ltd
KW  - GREAT BRITAIN. GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATIONS HEADQUARTERS
KW  - GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL AIR FORCE
KW  - MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
KW  - GREAT BRITAIN
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-340) and index
N2  - Before Bletchley Park could break the German war machine's code, its daily military communications had to be monitored and recorded by 'the Listening Service', the wartime department whose bases moved with every theatre of war (Cairo, Malta, Gibraltar, Iraq, Cyprus) as well as having listening stations along the eastern coast of Britain to intercept radio traffic in the European theatre. This is the story of the - usually very young - men and women sent out to farflung outposts to listen in for Bletchley Park, an oral history of exotic locations and ordinary lives turned upside down by a sudden remote posting - the heady nightlife in Cairo, filing cabinets full of snakes in North Africa, and flights out to Delhi by luxurious flying boat
ER  -