The Emperor's Codes - Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers

by Michael Smith (Author)

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  2000

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  In the No. 1 bestseller Station X, Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In The Emperor's Codes he continues this fascinating story as he examines how Japan's codes were broken and the effect this had on the war in the Far East. The Emperor's Codes takes the reader into the lives and loves of the men and women battling to break the Emperor's codes. It shows how these intrepid code-breakers uncovered the secret Japanese preparations for the invasion of Malaya and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Using memories of those at the forefront of this battle, this is a fascinating and previously untold story.

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  Paperback
  2001

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  Drawing on recently declassified British files, Australian secret official histories, this is the story of British and Australian codebreakers: remarkable individuals such as John Tiltman, an eccentric British soldier, and Eric Nave, an Australian sailor who pioneered the breakthroughs in Japanese naval codes.

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  2000

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  The Emperor's Codes moves across the world from Bletchley Park to Pearl Harbor; from Singapore to Colombo; and from Mombasa to Melbourne, describing not just how the Japanese codes and ciphers were broken but how the lives of the codebreakers, both professional and personal, were affected. It tells the stories of John Tiltman, the eccentric British soldier turned codebreaker who made many of the early breaks into Japanese diplomatic and military codes; Eric Nave, the Australian sailor recruited to work for the British who pioneered breakthroughs in Japanese naval codes; and of Oshima Hiroshi, the hard-drinking Japanese ambassador to Berlin, whose candid reports to Tokyo of his conversations with Hitler and other high-ranking Nazis were a major source of intelligence in the war against Germany. Many of these revelations have been made possible only through using declassified British files, through privileged access to Australian secret official histories, and interviews with a number of British, American and Australian codebreakers.