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

New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xxvi, 832, [6] pages. Listing of Acronyms and Abbreviations. Map Symbol Key. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. List of Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. John Prados is a well-known author, historian, and security analyst. He specializes in history of World War II, history of the Vietnam War, and current international relations. Prados is a Senior fellow with the National Security Archive, where he leads its Intelligence Documentation Project and its Vietnam Project. Prados has written over 20 books. He has also written articles and book reviews for Vanity Fair, Scientific American, Naval History, the Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Intelligence and National Security, Naval Institute Proceedings, The Journal of National Security Law & Policy, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of East-West Studies, Survival, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. Combined Fleet Decoded was named by New York Military Affairs Symposium as the recipient of The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award in 1995. Combined Fleet Decoded was also named a Notable Naval Book of the Year by the United States Naval Institute. Combined Fleet Decoded offers a new look at the Pacific war, seen as a secret struggle between American and Japanese naval intelligence, with fresh information and perceptive interpretation based on solid research. Revelations include new data on how the United States caught the Japanese superbattleship Yamato; the story of the Japanese admiral who almost discovered that Americans had broken the Japanese naval codes; the first treatment anywhere of the impact of intelligence on the initial campaigns in the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies, including the escape of American codebreakers from Corregidor, and what American intelligence learned before the war from Japanese naval activity in China.