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Code Breakers

Craig Collie
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781743312100
  • Weight: 570g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publication City/Country: AU
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

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 with strong connections to British Naval Intelligence and a counter group allied to the US military. 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.
About Craig Collie
Craig Collie 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.

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