Joe Rocheforts War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audiobook, by Elliot Carlson Play Audiobook Sample

Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway Audiobook

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Read By: Danny Campbell Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 15.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 11.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: April 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781452676968

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

38

Longest Chapter Length:

52:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:38 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

36:01 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Elliot Carlson's biography of Captain Joe Rochefort is the first to be written of the officer who headed the U.S. Navy's decrypt unit at Pearl Harbor and broke the Japanese Navy's code before the Battle of Midway. Listeners will share his frustrations as he searches in vain for Yamamoto's fleet prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and share his joy when he succeeds in tracking the fleet in early 1942 and breaks the code that leads Rochefort to believe Yamamoto's invasion target is Midway. His conclusions, bitterly opposed by some top Navy brass, are credited with making the U.S. victory possible and helping change the course of the war. The author tells the story of how opponents in Washington forced Rochefort's removal from the decrypt unit at Pearl and denied him the Distinguished Service Medal recommended by Admiral Nimitz. In capturing the interplay of policy and personality and the role played by politics at the highest levels of the Navy, Carlson reveals a side of the intelligence community seldom seen by outsiders. For a full understanding of the man, Carlson examines Rochefort's love-hate relationship with cryptanalysis, his adventure-filled years in the 1930s as the right-hand man to the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet, and his return to code-breaking in mid-1941 as the officer in charge of Station Hypo at Pearl Harbor. He traces Rochefort's career from his enlistment in 1918 to his posting in Washington as head of the Navy's code-breaking desk at age twenty-five, and beyond. In many ways a reinterpretation of Rochefort, the book makes clear the key role his code-breaking played in the outcome of Midway and the legacy he left of reporting actionable intelligence directly to the fleet. An epilogue describes efforts waged by Rochefort's colleagues to obtain the medal denied him in 1942, a drive that finally paid off in 1986, when the medal was awarded posthumously.

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"What an excellent story of the intelligence that preceded the Battle of Midway. Joe Rochefort and his folks in "The Basement" at Pearl Harbor are owed a huge debt of gratitude. Elliot Carlson has done a fantastic job of telling this story. Thank you."

— Stan (5 out of 5 stars)

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  • The stuff of a wartime thriller.

    — The Wall Street Journal

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Narration Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5 Story Rating: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    — Galen, 11/6/2023
  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " A ton of details about day to day activities of navy code breakers in hawaii before and after 12/07/1941. "

    — William, 2/11/2013

About Elliot Carlson

Elliot Carlson is a longtime journalist who has worked as a reporter, editor and staff writer for such newspapers and magazines as the Honolulu Advertiser, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek. Carlson is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford University.

About Danny Campbell

Danny Campbell is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actor who has appeared in CBS’ The Guardian, the films A Pool, a Fool, and a Duel and Greater Than Gravity, and in over twenty-five commercials. He is a company member of the Independent Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles and is an adjunct faculty member at Santa Monica College.