The Emperor's Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War IISimon and Schuster, 01/08/2011 - 368 من الصفحات In this gripping, previously untold story from World War II, Michael Smith examines how code breakers cracked Japan’s secret codes and won the war in the Pacific. He also takes the reader step by step through the process, explaining exactly how the code breakers went about their daunting task—made even more difficult by the vast linguistic differences between Japanese and English. The Emperor’s Codes moves across the world from Bletchley Park to Pearl Harbor, from Singapore to Colombo, and from Mombasa to Melbourne. It tells the stories of John Tiltman, the British soldier turned code breaker who made many of the early breaks in Japanese diplomatic and military codes; Commander Joe Rochedort, the leading expert on Japanese in U.S. naval intelligence; Eric Nave, the Australian sailor who pioneered breakthroughs in deciphering Japanese naval codes; and Oshima Hiroshi, the hard-drinking Japanese ambassador to Berlin whose candid, often verbose reports to Tokyo of his conversations with Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis were a major source of intelligence in the war against Germany. Without the dedication demonstrated by these relatively unsung heroes, the outcome of World War II might have been very different. |
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A Spy Base in the Far East | |
Diplomatic Secrets | |
Preparing for | |
Purple Magic | |
The Battle that Turned the Tide | |
Friends Fall | |
Breaking the Military Attaché Code | |
Central Bureaus Big Break | |
The Yamamoto Shootdown | |
The Bletchley Park Strippers | |
Return to Colombo | |
An Alliance under Threat | |
Working with the Americans | |
East and West Winds | |
The Americans Take the Lead | |
A Tricky Experiment | |
Operation Capital | |
Defeat into Victory | |
MacArthur Returns | |
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