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02797aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 A4870D82969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 007 ta 008 191115s2020 xnaacfhg b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1460756223 020 $a 9781460756225 035 $a (OCoLC)1127542855 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d ATCDL $d AUKAL $d OCLCF $d OCL $d YDXIT $d PAU $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a u-at--- 050 4 $a D639 C75 P48x 2020 082 04 $a 940.48694 $2 23 100 1 $a Phelps, James $c (Reporter) $e author. 245 10 $a Australian code breakers / $c James Phelps. 264 1 $a Sydney, NSW ; $b HarperCollins Publishers, $c 2020. 300 $a 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaiser's Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Australian Navy had an opportunity to immediately change the course of the war. But what exactly had they found? Enter the Australian code breakers... Recruited by savvy top brass, maths whizz and German speaker Frederick Wheatley worked night and day to fathom the basic principles of the code and start tracking the German Navy's powerful East Asia Squadron, led by the brilliant Maximilian von Spee. Soon Melbourne was a hub of international Allied intelligence. This is the untold story of how a former Australian headmaster and his mostly female team cracked one of Germany's most complex codes, paving the way for the greatest Allied naval victory of World War I. 505 00 $a Machine generated contents note: $g 17. $t Souvenirs and Send-offs. $g 2. $t War and Order -- $g 3. $t The Code Catcher -- $g 4. $t The Code Cracker -- $g 5. $t Sea Dogs -- $g 6. $t The War Room -- $g 7. $t For King or Country? -- $g 8. $t Section E -- $g 9. $t Operation Occupied -- $g 10. $t Superencipherment -- $g 11. $t Coronel -- $g 12. $t The Decryption -- $g 13. $t The Blame Game -- $g 14. $t Sydney Strikes -- $g 15. $t The Final Crack -- $g 16. $t The Falklands -- $g 17. $t Souvenirs and Send-offs. 651 7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 648 7 $a 1914-1918 $2 fast 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Cryptography. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Military intelligence. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $x Participation, Australian. 650 0 $a Cryptographers $z Australia. 650 0 $a Cryptography $z Australia. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210505011836.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A4870D82969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search