The Codebreakers
The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
$100.00
- Hardcover
1200 pages
- Release Date
15 November 1996
Summary
The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers—how they’re made, how they’re broken, and the many and fascinating roles they’ve played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage—updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.
Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684831305 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684831309 |
| Author: | David Kahn |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1200 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 November 1996 |
| Weight: | 1.67kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 61mm |
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Critics Review
TimePerhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography yet published.
The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force…The volume is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and kingdoms….Magnificent.The Christian Science Monitor A literary blockbuster…for many evening of gripping reading, no better choice can be made than this book.Time Perhaps the best and most complete account of cryptography yet published.The New York Times Book Review A notable achievement…Mr. Kahn has presented the specialist and the general public with a lavishly comprehensive introduction to a subject of basic significance for both.Prepublication National Security Agency Evaluation, now declassified The book in its entirelty constitutes the most publicly revealing picture that has ever been presented of U.S. Sigint activities and the agencies engaged in this field.
About The Author
David Kahn
David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world’s leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler’s Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.
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