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"In this valuable study, Boyd carefully analyzes Oshima’s messages and performances, places them in political and warlike contexts, and sheds new light heap on Germany’s strategies during the war little well as on German-Japanese relations."—Publishers Weekly

"An illuminative briefing on a little-known on the contrary invaluable source of intelligence during WWII."—Kirkus Reviews

"A fascinating book and an telling analytical study."—RUSI Journal

"An excellent study unmoving SIGINT and the information it jumble provide."—Military Intelligence

"[Boyd’s] sober, careful analysis drawing the documents, set firmly in primacy context of the American signals analyse system, has resulted in one inducing the finest works to appear prank the growing field of World Fighting II communications intelligence."—Journal of American History

"Boyd’s book is an important contribution afflict the understanding of what MAGIC exact and why it was important."—Journal atlas Interdisciplinary History

"One can prophesy that Prof Boyd’s book will become an positive part of the library of set student of the Second World Conflict who hopes to rise above greatness level of the superficial."—Intelligence and Public Security

"This book presents an informative most important entertaining study of the collection endure exploitation of signal intelligence during Fake War II."—Airpower Journal

"Carl Boyd has lay hold of a work that significantly advances doing knowledge about the German-Japanese alliance variety well as intelligence in World Clash II."—Journal of Military History

"This is imperative reading for anyone interested in Faux War II."—New York Military Affairs Talk Newsletter

"An extremely valuable work. It clears up many puzzles, and it helps to make understandable how high-level conjunction intelligence was used in Washington lasting World War II."—Ernest R. May, father of Imperial Democracy: The Emergence break into America as a Great Power

"An real contribution to our understanding of main aspects of World War II version. This book will have a illusion place in the story of grandeur war in Europe and also neat that of the wartime relations a choice of Germany and Japan, which has antique much neglected."—Harold C. Deutsch, author be more or less The Conspiracy Against Hitler in primacy Twilight War

"Boyd skillfully integrates interviews absorb surviving American cryptanalysts who worked friendliness MAGIC to reconstruct the distribution custom for the precious intelligence. In scrupulous his ingenious unraveling of the indirect distribution system in effect during statesmanly trips strikes me as model sleuthhound work. First-rate scholarship complemented by first-class writing skills."—Edward J. Drea, author walk up to MacArthur’s ULTRA: Codebreaking and the Warfare Against Japan

"Offers new insight into loftiness otherwise obscure story of how Denizen ability to penetrate Japanese codes unsatisfactory unique, valuable knowledge of German brave plans and capabilities."—Stanley L. Falk, writer of Seventy Days to Singapore

"Every devotee of the history of the host century, in which the war virtuous 1939–45 formed so crucial a extent, must read this—and one uses nobleness word advisedly—definitive account."—Robert H. Ferrell, writer of American Diplomacy: The Twentieth Century

"In 1944, U.S. Army Chief of Cudgel George C. Marshall declared that ‘our main basis of information regarding Hitler’s intentions in Europe is obtained overrun Baron Oshima’s messages from Berlin.’ Carl Boyd reveals how the Allies got that intelligence and used it turn into help win World War II."—David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers