The Secret Front

In April 1961, approximately fourteen hundred Cuban exiles landed on the southern coast of Cuba.

They had been trained in secret.

Armed in secret.

Transported in secret.

Behind them stood the Central Intelligence Agency and the government of the United States.

Ahead of them stood Fidel Castro.

Within seventy-two hours, the invasion was broken.

But the...

Primary book description

Before Bletchley Park could break the codes, somebody had to hear the signal.

On Britain’s Yorkshire coast, men and women sat behind wireless receivers listening into the invisible communications war unfolding across Europe. They copied call signs, frequencies and groups of coded traffic, often without knowing what the...