Main Title: |
A man of intelligence : the life of Captain Theodore Eric Nave, Australian codebreaker extraordinary / Ian Pfennigwerth. |
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Author: |
Pfennigwerth, Ian Elvins
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Imprint: |
Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, c2006. |
Collation: |
304 p., xvi p. of plates : ill., portraits, map, facsim., notes, bib., index, pbk ; 23 cm. |
Summary: |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Early Days 13 -- 2 First Breaks, 1925-27 40 -- 3 Government Code and Cypher School 64 -- 4 China Station, 1931-33 90 -- 5 The Drift to War, 1933-37 110 -- 6 Far East Combined Bureau, 1937-40 129 -- 7 Australia Revisited, 1940-41 153 -- 8 Pearl Harbor and the Arrival of the Americans, 1942 178 -- 9 Central Bureau, Brisbane, 1942-45 207 -- 10 After the War 231 -- 11 In Retirement 258. |
Subject: |
Nave, Eric, 1899-1993 Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Cryptographers Intelligence officers World War, 1939-1945 Military intelligence Biography Military history
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ISBN: |
1877058416 (pbk.) 9781877058417 |
Notes: |
This biography tells how a bright lad with ambition and with a powerful streak of luck entered and carved his own special niche in the arcane world of codebreaking. It sets his achievements against the geopolitical shifts which led to war with Japan in 1941. It explores the dysfunctional nature of US signals intelligence and its effects on war in the South West Pacific, and charts the rise of Australia's quantitative and qualitative contribution to Allied intelligence. It concludes with Eric's work in post-war signals intelligence, his time at ASIO and his retirement activities, including his frustrated attempts to publish his memoirs, and an assessment of his place in history.
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