Australian Code Breakers Regional studies Best Western Historical Nonfiction

Best Western Historical Nonfiction

and the civilization that created it

Jessica Brogan

and one night that changes everything

Australian Code Breakers Regional studies Best Western Historical NonfictionThe 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 what exactly had they found? Enter