Eavesdropping on the Emperor : interrogators and codebreakers in Britain's war with Japan / Peter Kornicki.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2021Description: 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197610916 (ebook) :Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain
| Translating and interpreting -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Language | World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications | Japanese language -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197602805DDC classification: 940.548641 LOC classification: D810.S7Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans were captured on the battlefield, who deciphered them for Britain? When Great Britain found itself at war with Japan in December 1941, there was a linguistic battle to be fought - but Britain was hopelessly unprepared. 'Eavesdropping on the Emperor' traces the men and women with a talent for languages who were put on crash courses in Japanese, and unfolds the history of their war.
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Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When Japanese signals were decoded at Bletchley Park, who translated them into English? When Japanese soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, who interrogated them? When Japanese maps and plans were captured on the battlefield, who deciphered them for Britain? When Great Britain found itself at war with Japan in December 1941, there was a linguistic battle to be fought - but Britain was hopelessly unprepared. 'Eavesdropping on the Emperor' traces the men and women with a talent for languages who were put on crash courses in Japanese, and unfolds the history of their war.
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