The Emperor's Codes: The Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers - Couverture souple

Smith, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 014200233X ISBN 13 : 9780142002339

Editeur : Penguin Books, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Smith Michael

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

While Allied Forces understandably pursued a Europe-first policy in the Second World War, the Japanese threat in the Far East grew with every passing month. Popular history credits the Americans with breaking Japanese codes and saving perhaps two years of conflict. This is not Michael Smith's view.

The Emperor's Codes uses recently released British archive records to fill in the details of British and Australian involvement in the Far East. In fact, Smith goes further and controversially concludes that internal bickering in the US military, compounded by a less than open exchange of information with the British, 'must have cost many lives, the majority of them American'. In addition, he observes that the Allies knew a Japanese 'unconditional surrender', dependent on Emperor Hirohito remaining on the throne, was on the cards before the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, throwing into considerable doubt the need for such demonstratively horrific tactics.

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Revue de presse

Smith provides plenty of technical information, including three appendices, to satisfy even the most ardent lover of cryptography. But less numerate readers are far from short-changed. Some of the book's most fascinating reading lies in the personal testimonies of the many veterans that Smith has interviewed, 'Anything', confesses one, 'was better than learning to march and salute.' --David Stafford, The Literary Review

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 014200233X
• ISBN 13: 9780142002339
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible