Codebreaker in the Far East

by Stripp,Alan

• ISBN13: 9780714633633
• ISBN10: 0714633631
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-05-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the first book to describe British wartime success in breaking Japanese codes of dazzling variety and great complexity which contributed to the victory in Burma three months before Hiroshima. Written for the general reader, this first-hand account describes the difficulty of decoding one of the most complex languages in the world in some of the most difficult conditions. The book was published in 1989 to avoid proposed legislation which would prohibit those in the security services from publishing secret information.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Tours of Duty
Cambridge, Bedford and Yorkshire	p. 3
Bletchley Park	p. 13
Marching Orders	p. 29
Delhi	p. 39
Naini Tal, Agra and Abbottabad	p. 48
Bangalore, Singapore and Cambridge	p. 58
Japanese Puzzles
Japanese Codes and Ciphers: what were they like?	p. 65
What did they tell us?	p. 80
How were they sent?	p. 89
How were they intercepted?	p. 93
How were they broken?	p. 100
What is so special about signals intelligence?	p. 109
Loose ends	p. 121
Traffic analysis	p. 121
The index	p. 122
Interrogation	p. 123
Japanese cryptographic security	p. 125
The Japanese as codebreakers	p. 128
The Japanese language	p. 131
The Chinese Telegraphic Code	p. 135
Japanese language courses	p. 139
Glossary of technical terms	p. 144
Cover-names	p. 151
A Tangled Web
Clandestine Groups and their Signals	p. 157
General Slim and Signals Intelligence	p. 165
Phuket Island	p. 172
Deception in the Burma Campaign	p. 179
Select bibliography	p. 192
Notes	p. 194
Index	p. 201
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