Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway

by Elliot Carlson

Book Overview

Elliot Carlson's award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy's signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. The book brings Rochefort to life as the irreverent, fiercely independent, and consequential officer that he was. Readers share his frustrations as he searches in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591141613
• ISBN13: 9781591141617
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 622 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"