Australian Code Breakers. Our Top-Secret War With The Kaiser's Reich

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 342 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The extraordinary story of a headmaster turned cryptographer, and our top-secret war with the Kaisers Reich. On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbournes 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 Navys 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 Germanys most complex codes, paving the way for the greatest Allied naval victory of World War I.

ISBN: 9781460756225