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Elliot Carlson’s award-winning biography of Capt. Joe Rochefort is the first to be written about the officer who headed Station Hypo, the U.S. Navy’s signals monitoring and cryptographic intelligence unit at Pearl Harbor, and who broke the Japanese navy’s code before the Battle of Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping to change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort’s removal from Station Hypo and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz.

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Joe Rochefort's War is a worthy addition to naval intelligence historical literature and is recommended...for reading by current naval intelligence specialists. The challenges, pitfalls, successes and disappointments experienced by Rochefort and his colleagues in the great maritime battles of the recent past are as relevant today as they ever were. -- Headmark , the quarterly journal of the Australian Naval Institute, published out of the Australian Capital Territory

Joe Rochefort's War is a worthy addition to naval intelligence historical literature and is recommended...for reading by current naval intelligence specialists. The challenges, pitfalls, successes and disappointments experienced by Rochefort and his colleagues in the great maritime battles of the recent past are as relevant today as they ever were. -- Headmark, the quarterly journal of the Australian Naval Institute, published out of the Australian Capital Territory

In Joe Rochefort's War Elliot Carlson has achieved a remarkable synthesis, a narrative that at once captures the atmosphere of the dawn of U.S. Navy codebreaking, the ethos of the Old Navy, and the towering contribution of this man, responsible in great measure for one of the most incredible victories in American naval history. Carlson sheds a bright light on an often-mentioned but little understood figure amid cataclysmic events. <br><br><br><br>-- John Prados, author of Combined Fleet Decoded<br><br>

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Elliot Carlson; is a longtime journalist who has worked for such newspapers and magazines as the Honolulu Advertiser, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and, most recently, the AARP Bulletin;. He holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Oregon, USA, and lives with his wife in Silver Spring, MD.

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