Southeast Asian History, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Espionage, Mathematics, Mathematics, World War II

Codebreaker in the Far East

Name: Codebreaker in the Far East
Author: Alan Stripp
ISBN: 9781136288593

by Alan Stripp

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Overview

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 win the war, shortening it perhaps by two or three years. Alan Stripp gives his first-hand account of the excitement of reading the enemy's mind, or 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.

About the Author, Alan Stripp

Alan Stripp is Director of the Cambridge University Summer Schools on British Secret Services. Until the end of the Second World War he worked at Bletchley Park and in Delhi, breaking Japanese codes, before switching to Persian and Afghan codes. He is the editor of Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley (OPB, 1994),