Codebreaker in the Far East

by Alan Stripp

Overview

This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415646727
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/15/2012
Series:	Studies in Intelligence
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alan Stripp is Director of the Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services. Until the end of the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park and in Delhi, breaking Japanese codes, before switching to Persian and Afghan codes. He is the editor of Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley (OPB, 1994),

Table of Contents

	List of illustrations	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	xiii
Part 1	Tours of Duty
1.	Cambridge, Bedford and Yorkshire	3
2.	Bletchley Park	13
3.	Marching Orders	29
4.	Delhi	39
5.	Naini Tal, Agra and Abbottabad	48
6.	Bangalore, Singapore and Cambridge	58
Part 2	Japanese Puzzles
7.	Japanese Codes and Ciphers: what were they like?	65
8.	What did they tell us?	80
9.	How were they sent?	89
10.	How were they intercepted?	93
12.	How were they broken?	100
12.	What is so special about signals intelligence?	109
13.	Loose ends	121
(a)	Traffic analysis	121
(b)	The index	122
(c)	Interrogation	123
(d)	Japanese cryptographic security	125
(e)	The Japanese as codebreakers	128
(f)	The Japanese language	131
(g)	The Chinese Telegraphic Code	135
(h)	Japanese language courses	139
(i)	Glossary of technical terms	144
(j)	Cover-names	151
Part 3	A Tangled Web
14.	Clandestine Groups and their Signals	157
15.	General Slim and Signals Intelligence	165
16.	Phuket Island	172
17.	Deception in the Burma Campaign	179
	Select bibliography	192
	Notes	194
	Index	201