The Emperor's Codes: The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers
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ISBN: 155970568X / Publisher: Arcade Publishing, June 2001
Describes the work and personalities of the codebreakers who deciphered Japanese codes despite vast linguistic differences between English and Japanese, and explains their contributions to Allied success during World War II.
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The US was surprised by Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor largely because of an inability to decode "superenciphered" messages about the coming attack. Codebreaking most famously, of the Nazis' Enigma code also played a key role in bringing World War II to an end. Smith tells the little-known story of how American and British codebreakers cracked the Japanese code and contributed to the Allies' victory in the Pacific. A journalist who worked for nine years in British Army intelligence, Smith uses recently declassified British files, access to secret Australian histories, and interviews with many of the codebreakers to spin out the ripping tale of how they did it. With b&w photos of the players and an insert mapping each step of the decoding process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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