ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

Part One: Tours of Duty

chapter 1|10 pages

Cambridge, Bedford and Yorkshire

chapter 2|16 pages

Bletchley Park

chapter 3|10 pages

Marching Orders

chapter 4|9 pages

Delhi

chapter 5|10 pages

Naini Tal, Agra and Abbottabad

chapter 6|5 pages

Bangalore, Singapore and Cambridge

part |2 pages

Part Two: Japanese Puzzles

chapter 8|9 pages

What Did They Tell Us?

chapter 9|4 pages

How Were They Sent?

chapter 10|7 pages

How Were They Intercepted?

chapter 11|9 pages

How Were They Broken?

chapter 13|34 pages

Loose Ends

part |2 pages

Part Three: A Tangled Web

chapter 14|8 pages

Clandestine Groups and Their Signals

chapter 15|7 pages

General Slim and Signals Intelligence

chapter 16|7 pages

Phuket Island

chapter 17|13 pages

Deception in the Burma Campaign