MacArthur’s Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (Revised) (Modern War Studies) - Tapa blanda

Drea, Edward J.

 
9780700605767: MacArthur’s Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-1945 (Revised) (Modern War Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0700605762 ISBN 13: 9780700605767
Editorial: University Press Of Kansas, 1991

Sinopsis

Cracking the enemy’s radio code is a task so urgent and so difficult that it demands the military’s best minds and most sophisticated technology. But when the coded messages are in a language as complex as Japanese, decoding problems multiply dramatically.

It took the U.S. Army a full two years after the attack on Pearl Harbor to break the codes of the Japanese Imperial Army. But by 1944 the U.S. was decoding more than 20,000 messages a month filled with information about enemy movements, strategy, fortifications, troop strengths, and supply convoys.

In MacArthur’s ULTRA, historian Edward Drea recounts the story behind the Army’s painstaking decryption operation and its dramatic breakthrough. He demonstrates how ULTRA (intelligence from decrypted Japanese radio communications) shaped MacArthur’s operations in New Guinea and the Philippines and its effect on the outcome of World War II.

From sources on both sides of the Pacific and national security agency declassified records, Drea has compiled a detailed listing of the ULTRA intelligence available to MacArthur. By correlating the existing intelligence with MacArthur’s operational decisions, Drea shows how MacArthur usedand misusedintelligence information. He tells for the first time the story behind MacArthur’s bold leap to Hollandia in 1944 and shows how ULTRA revealed the massive Japanese mobilization for what might have been (had it occurred) the bloodiest and most protracted engagement of the entire war the Allied invasion of Japan. Drea also clarifies the role of ULTRA in Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, and concludes that ULTRA shortened the war by six to ten months.

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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

De la contraportada

In this book, the author assesses the relationship between special intelligence and the campaigns of General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific. During World War II, special intelligence, commonly referred to as ULTRA today, meant information obtained through monitoring, intercepting, and decoding enemy radio communications.

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Editorial
University Press Of Kansas
Año de publicación
1991
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0700605762
ISBN 13 
9780700605767
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
314
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9780700605040: MacArthur's "Ultra": Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-45 (Modern War Studies)

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ISBN 10:  0700605045 ISBN 13:  9780700605040
Editorial: University Press of Kansas, 1991
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