- Publisher: Biteback
- Year: 2010
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 360pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9781785907654
- Product code: 531083
The Emperor's Codes
Bletchley Park's Role in Breaking Japan's Secret Ciphers
Michael Smith New Paperback Illustrated
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Alongside Alan Turing and those working on the Enigma machine were numerous other code-cracking units at Bletchley, including one tasked with breaking Japan’s codes. This account shows how their success led to many crucial interventions, such as the thwarting of Vice Admiral Nagumo's Indian Ocean raid and the successes of the Battle of the Malacca Strait.
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In his bestselling Station X, Michael Smith brought us the astonishing true story of the breaking of the Enigma Code. In The Emperor's Codes, he continues the tale as he examines how Japan's codes were broken and explores the consequences for the Second World War.
The Emperor's Codes 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 Hiroshi Oshima, 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 thanks to recently declassified British files, privileged access to Australian secret official histories and interviews with an unprecedented number of British, American and Australian codebreakers.
The Emperor's Codes 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 Hiroshi Oshima, 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 thanks to recently declassified British files, privileged access to Australian secret official histories and interviews with an unprecedented number of British, American and Australian codebreakers.
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Alongside Alan Turing and those working on the Enigma machine were numerous other code-cracking units at Bletchley, including one tasked with breaking Japan’s codes. This account shows how their success led to many crucial interventions, such as the thwarting of Vice Admiral Nagumo's Indian Ocean raid and the successes of the Battle of the Malacca Strait.
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