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Author: Hervie Haufler
ISBN : 0451209796
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For the first time ever, veteran World War II cryptographer Hervie Haufler details how American and British codebreakers were the decisive factor in the Allied victory. From the Purple Machine to the Navajo Talkers to the breaking of Japan's JN-25 Naval Code to the shadowy world of decoding units like Hut-8 in Bletchley Park, he shows how crucial information-often obtained by surreptitious and violent means-was the decisive edge in the Battle of Britain, at Midway and against the U-Boats in the North Atlantic, and how Allied intelligence saved the Soviet Union from almost certain defeat.
In an accessible account based on years of research, interviews and exclusive access to previously top-secret archives, Haufler demonstrates how cryptography enabled Nimitz and MacArthur to persevere in the Pacific and helped Eisenhower and Patton mount the assaults on Normandy. In compelling detail, Haufler shows us how it was done-as only one who was on the frontlines of the "secret war" could tell it.
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- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: NAL Trade (January 3, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451209796
- ISBN-13: 978-0451209795
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
Free Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptogaphers Won World War II
This is a nice overview of WWII codebreaking. It covers the work to decipher messages sent on the German Enigma machine and in the Japanese Purple machine, as well as decoding the Japanese JN25 Naval code. The book is well written and entertaining. The emphasis of the book is in the impact of this work, not on the details of processes by which it was done. In fact, there is relatively little in the book that cover the details of how messages sent on German and Japanese cipher machines were deciphered or how the JN25 Codebooks were recreated. If this is your primary interest, then I would recommend Stephen Budainsky's "Battle of Wits" as this is covered in considerable detail, with a lot of technical information.
What is in Codebreakers Victory -
? A discussion of the Polish and British work to decipher the German Enigma machine. This discussion is general, with few technical details.
? A discussion of the Japanese Purple machine, used by the Japanese foreign ministry, and a discussion of decoding JN25. Again, these discussions are general, without a lot of technical detail.
? Impact of Ultra - the deciphering of German massages. This covers the U-boat war, the war in North Africa, in Italy, leading up to D-day and beyond in Europe.
? Impact of Purple and JN25 decrypts, including all the major engagements of the war in the Pacific.
? The XX program of disinformation fed to the Germans and how the decryption of German messages helped this effort.
? Russia and Russian spying - This section is not specifically about decoding. It is more about Russian spy networks in Germany, Europe, Japan and in the US and Britain. It covers the communist infiltration of the decoding efforts in the US and in Britain and in the Manhattan Project.