Codebreaker in the Far East

Informationen zum Autor 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 Park (OPB, 1994), Klappentext Codebreaker in the Far East is the first book to describe how Bletchley Park and its Indian and Far Eastern outposts broke a series of Japanese codes and cipher systems of dazzling variety and complexity. Their achievements made a major contribution to the Allied victory in Burma! and probably helped to shorten and win the war! perhaps by two or three years. Alan Stripp gives his first-hand account of the excitement of reading the enemy's mind! of working against the clock! hampered by one of the world's most daunting languages and the knowledge that they were facing an unyielding and resourceful enemy who had never known defeat. Zusammenfassung This work describes how Bletchley Park and its Indian and Far Eastern outposts broke a series of Japanese codes and cipher systems of dazzling variety and complexity. Alan Stripp gives his first-hand account of working against the clock, hampered by one of the world's most daunting languages. 1. CAMBRIDGE, BEDFORD, AND YORKSHIRE; 2. Bletchley Park; 3. Marching Orders; 4. Delhi; 5. Naini Tal, Agra, and Abbottabad; 6. Bangalore, Singapore, and Cambridge; 7. JAPANESE CODES AND CIPHERS: WHAT WERE THEY LIKE?; 8. What did they tell us?; 9. How were they sent?; 10. How were they intercepted?; 11. How were they broken?; 12. What is so special about signals intelligence?; 13. Loose ends; 14. CLANDESTINE GROUPS AND THEIR SIGNALS; 15. General Slim and Signals Intelligence; 16. Phuket Island; 17. Deception in the Burma Campaign

Product details

• Authors: Alan Stripp
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2002
• EAN: 9780192803863
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280386-3
• No. of pages: 220
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