Code breakers : inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley Parks / Craig Collie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collie, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Australia--Cryptography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Cryptography--Australia.

Cryptography.

Cryptographers--Australia.

Cryptographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Allen & Unwin, [2017]

Summary:

The extraordinary untold story of the brilliant men and women who cracked the Japanese codes from Australia during World War II.

At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break the Japanese military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers with achievements in mathematics and the classics. These men patiently and carefully deciphered the Japanese signals, ultimately making a significant contribution to the victories at Midway, Coral Sea and Milne Bay. But this is more than a story of codes. It is an extraordinary exploration of a unique group of men and their intense personal rivalries. It is also the story of a fierce inter-national and inter-service political battle for control of war-changing intelligence between a group of Australian cryptographers based at the Monterey apartment block in Melbourne's Albert Park with strong connections to British Naval Intelligence and General MacArthur's counter group allied to the US military that eventually established its headquarters in suburban Brisbane. What happened between these two groups would have consequences for intelligence services in the years to follow. Code Breakers brings this surprising and very secret world and the men who operated in it to rich life for the first time.--Back cover.

Contents:

Cover

Other books by Craig Collie

Title page

Imprint page

Contents

List of maps

Abbreviations

Relationship of Allied code-breaking units diagram

Chapter 1: Burn the codes and ciphers

Chapter 2: Pioneer of the code breaker's craft

Chapter 3: Special Intelligence Bureau

Chapter 4: The road to Corregidor

Chapter 5: Scramble to safety

Chapter 6: The turning of the tide

Chapter 7: Midway

Chapter 8: Central Bureau

Chapter 9: The Water TransportCode broken

Chapter 10: The admiral's itinerary

Chapter 11: Buried treasure

Chapter 12: The front line and the back room

Chapter 13: A new world, a new enemy

Pic section

CODING AND DECODING JAPAN'S MILITARY MESSAGES

Glossary of technical terms

Cast of characters

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-379) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-74269-977-4