Table of Contents

List of maps

Abbreviations

Diagram of Allied code-breaking units

1. Burn the codes and ciphers

2. Pioneer of the code breaker's craft

3. Special Intelligence Bureau

4. The road to Corregidor

5. Scramble to safety

6. The turning of the tide

7. Midway

8. Central Bureau

9. The Water Transport Code broken

10. The admiral's itinerary

11. Buried treasure

12. The front line and the back room

13. A new world, a new enemy Coding and decoding Japan's military messages

Glossary of technical terms

Cast of characters

Acknowledgements

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Craig Collie is the author of the highly acclaimed The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track and Nagasaki: The massacre of the innocent and unknowing, as well as The Reporter and the Warlords: An Australian at large in China's republican revolution. He is a TV producer-director by background and was series producer of A Big Country and Quantum. He has been Production Executive at the Australian Film TV & Radio School and head of TV Production at SBS.