The Emperor's Codes
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The Emperor's Codes

Bletchley Park's role in breaking Japan's secret cyphers

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Emperor's Codes

Bletchley Park's role in breaking Japan's secret cyphers

About this book

The extraordinary wartime exploits of the British codebreakers based at Bletchley Park continue to fascinate and amaze. In The Emperor's Codes Michael Smith tells the story of how Japan's wartime codes were broken, and the consequences for the Second World War. He describes how the Japanese ciphers were broken and the effect on the lives of the codebreakers themselves. Using material from recently declassified British files, privileged access to Australian secret official histories and interviews with British, American and Australian codebreakers, this is the first full account of the critical role played by Bletchley Park and its main outposts around the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  7. Map
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. 1: SINGAPORE, DECEMBER 1941
  10. 2: BORROWING THE CABLES
  11. 3: A SPY BASE IN THE FAR EAST
  12. 4: DIPLOMATIC SECRETS
  13. 5: PREPARING FOR WAR
  14. 6: PURPLE MAGIC
  15. 7: WORKING WITH THE AMERICANS
  16. 8: EAST AND WEST WINDS
  17. 9: THE AMERICANS TAKE THE LEAD
  18. 10: A TRICKY EXPERIMENT
  19. 11: MIDWAY: THE BATTLE THAT TURNED THE TIDE
  20. 12: FRIENDS FALL OUT
  21. 13: BREAKING THE MILITARY ATTACHÉ CODE
  22. 14: CENTRAL BUREAU’S BIG BREAK
  23. 15: THE YAMAMOTO SHOOTDOWN
  24. 16: THE BLETCHLEY PARK STRIPPERS
  25. 17: RETURN TO COLOMBO
  26. 18: AN ALLIANCE UNDER THREAT
  27. 19: OPERATION CAPITAL
  28. 20: DEFEAT INTO VICTORY
  29. 21: MACARTHUR RETURNS
  30. 22: THE ATOMIC BOMB
  31. APPENDIX 1: BREAKING THE JAPANESE SUPERENCIPHERED CODES
  32. APPENDIX 2: RECOVERY BY DIFFERENCING
  33. APPENDIX 3: BAYES AND THE STANDARDISING OF JUDGEMENTS
  34. NOTES
  35. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  36. INDEX
  37. Copyright