Code Breakers: Inside the Shadow World of Signals Intelligence in Australia's Two Bletchley Parks

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Craig Collie

Code Breakers

Inside the Shadow World of Signals Intelligence in Australia's Two Bletchley Parks

Craig Collie

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Allen & Unwin
29 March 2017

History; Second World War; Military intelligence

At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan. These men patiently and carefully unravelled the codes in Japanese signals, ultimately playing a crucial role in the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, as well as Macarthur's push into the Philippines. An intercept station in the Queensland bush brought about the end of Admiral Yamamoto.

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 and loathing, of white-anting and taking credit for others' achievements. 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 cryptographers based at the Monterey apartment block in Melbourne's Albert Park and General MacArthur's counter group 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.

By: Craig Collie
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781743312100
ISBN 10: 1743312105
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 29 March 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of maps Abbreviations Diagram of Allied code-breaking units 1. Burn the codes and ciphers 2. Pioneer of the code breaker's craft 3. Special Intelligence Bureau 4. The road to Corregidor 5. Scramble to safety 6. The turning of the tide 7. Midway 8. Central Bureau 9. The Water Transport Code broken 10. The admiral's itinerary 11. Buried treasure 12. The front line and the back room 13. A new world, a new enemy Coding and decoding Japan's military messages Glossary of technical terms Cast of characters Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

Craig Collie's is the author of the highly acclaimed The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track and Nagasaki: Living in the Shadow of the Bomb, as well as The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at large in China's republican revolution. He is a film- maker by background and was producer/director on Four Corners and supervising producer of A Big Country. He has been Production Executive at the Australian Film TV & Radio School and head of TV Production at SBS.