Combined Fleet Decoded The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II

E-307: Naval Institute Press. Very Good. 2001. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 2001. 832 pgs. Illustrated. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text has some pencilled notes present. Binding tight and solid. Written in the style of a thriller but solidly based on an array of sources, this study reinterprets the entire sea campaign in the Pacific, using intelligence as the missing key to the Allied success. It examines every aspect of the secret war of intelligence--from radio dispatches and espionage to vital information from prisoners and document translation--showing how U. S. Intelligence outsmarted Japan nearly every step of the way. The resulting assessment is a virtual rewriting of history that challenges previous conceptions about the Pacific conflict. EB; 6 X 1.5 X 9 inches; 832 pages .