Bletchley Park’s Secret Source

STEPHEN WYNN

Everyone knows the story of Bletchley Park and the code breakers there, but where did the messages come from in the first place? That’s the focus of this book, on the super-secretive Y Service which ran a chain of wireless intercept stations all over the world and in particular, the Wrens who manned many of them. That leads to stories of Wrens being dispatched by creaking passenger ships that were subsequently sunk, leaving them on a raft in shark infested waters. It’s as much their story as it is that of Y Service.

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• Greenhill Books

• ISBN 978-1-7843-8581-1

• 214 pages • Hardback

• £19.99