Australian Code Breakers: Our Top-Secret War with the Kaiser's Reich

by James Phelps

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460756223
• ISBN13: 9781460756225
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"