The Emperor's Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II

The Emperor's Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II

by Michael Smith
The Emperor's Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II

The Emperor's Codes: The Thrilling Story of the Allied Code Breakers Who Turned the Tide of World War II

by Michael Smith

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781628721386
Publisher: Arcade
Publication date: 08/01/2011
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 407,565
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Michael Smith spent a decade in British intelligence before becoming a journalist, first with the BBC and then with  the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. Smith is the author of numerous books on espionage, including the number one UK bestseller Station X: The Secrets of Bletchley Park, the US bestseller Killer Elite, The Emperor's Codes, published by Arcade, and Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews, which led to the recognition of former MI6 officer Frank Foley as Righteous Among Nations. Smith is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College Oxford and a member of the Historical Advisory Group of the Bletchley Park Trust. He lives in Oxfordshire in England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Map xii

Introduction 1

1 Singapore, December 1941 9

2 Borrowing the Cables 14

3 A Spy Base in the Far East 28

4 Diplomatic Secrets 42

5 Preparing for War 53

6 Purple Magic 65

7 Working with the Americans 78

8 East and West Winds 90

9 The Americans Take the Lead 104

10 A Tricky Experiment 118

11 Midway: The Battle that Turned the Tide 132

12 Friends Fall Out 145

13 Breaking the Military Attache Code 157

14 Central Bureau's Big Break 169

15 The Yamamoto Shootdown 181

16 The Bletchley Park Strippers 194

17 Return to Colombo 207

18 An Alliance under Threat 217

19 Operation Capital 229

20 Defeat into Victory 241

21 MacArthur Returns 252

22 The Atomic Bomb 265

Notes 281

Bibliography 305

Index 310

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