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.
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Alan Stripp in 1943 was a first-year Cambridge classics scholar with an aptitude for musical composition, chess, and crossword puzzles. These attributes led to his selection for training in breaking Japanese codes, which he did at Bletchley Park and in Delhi until the end of the war, when he switched to Persian and Afghan codes. Returning to Cambridge, he changed course to read Japanese and Chinese. His later career embraced the British Council in Portugal and Indonesia, and both lecturing and administration at Cambridge. Since retiring in 1988 he has directed Cambridge University summer schools on British secret intelligence.
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After taking half the book for what might be the most boring WW2 autobiography in print, we get an excellent look at Japanese cryptosystems and how they were attacked. If you're interested in crypto-stuff you'll love this book. If not, keep looking.
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Fine Narrative,
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The author was a cryptographer working out of Australia during WWW II. This is his personal narrative and an operational history combined. Not definitive because at the time of writing much documentation remained to be declassified. A worthwhile addition to a SIGINT collection.
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How do people become codebreakers? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crypto material, kana syllables, crypto systems, deception scheme, diplomatic traffic, intercept stations, cipher machine, substitution table, signals security, signals traffic, signals intelligence, captured documents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bletchley Park, Top Secret, New Guinea, Pearl Harbor, General Slim, Far East, Foreign Office, Robin Gibson, Air Army, Phuket Island, Royal Navy, Field Security, Indian Ocean, Rushden Hall, Air Division, Burma Area Army, David Kahn, General Marshall, Louis Allen, Middle East, New Delhi, Operation Zipper, Soviet Union, War Office, Wentworth Woodhouse New!
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How do people become codebreakers? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
crypto material, kana syllables, crypto systems, deception scheme, diplomatic traffic, intercept stations, cipher machine, substitution table, signals security, signals traffic, signals intelligence, captured documents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bletchley Park, Top Secret, New Guinea, Pearl Harbor, General Slim, Far East, Foreign Office, Robin Gibson, Air Army, Phuket Island, Royal Navy, Field Security, Indian Ocean, Rushden Hall, Air Division, Burma Area Army, David Kahn, General Marshall, Louis Allen, Middle East, New Delhi, Operation Zipper, Soviet Union, War Office, Wentworth Woodhouse New!
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- Top Secret Ultra by Peter Calvocoressi on page 14, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes by Gordon Welchman on page 107, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis (Artech House Telecom Library) by Cipher A. Deavours on page 70, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Enemy is Listening - The Story of the Y Service by Aileen Clayton on page 121, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century by Christopher Andrew in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Britain's Secret War against Japan, 1937-1945 (Studies in Intelligence) by Douglas Ford on 4 pages
- Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers by R. A. Ratcliff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptogaphers Won World War II by Hervie Haufler on page 249, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park by Sir F. H. Hinsley on page 281, and page 287
- War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean (Studies in Military & Strategic History) by Ashley Jackson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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