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The Codebreakers : History of Secret Communication by David Kahn
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- The Codebreakers
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering & Technology, History, Military
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subject
- Espionage, Ciphers, Cryptography, Russkaya Kriptologiya, WWII, codebreaking
- ISBN
- 9780684831305
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Codebreakers : the Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
- Item Height
- 2.4in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 58.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1200 Pages
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Product Information
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, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's The Codebreakers takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, The Codebreakers has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0684831309
ISBN-13
9780684831305
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16970
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Codebreakers : the Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
1200 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
2.4in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
58.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Z103.K28 1996
Edition Number
2
Reviews
The Christian Science Monitor A literary blockbuster...for many evening of gripping reading, no better choice can be made than this book., 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., 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 Washington PostKahn 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., Prepublication National Security Agency Evaluation, now declassifiedThe 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., The New York Times Book ReviewA 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., The Christian Science MonitorA literary blockbuster...for many evening of gripping reading, no better choice can be made than this book.
Table of Content
CONTENTS Preface to the Revised Edition Preface A Few Words 1. One Day of Magic THE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY 2. The First 3,000 Years 3. The Rise of the West 4. On the Origin of a Species 5. The Era of the Black Chambers 6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes 7. Crises of the Union 8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island 9. Room 40 10. A War of Intercepts: I 11. A War of Intercepts: II 12. Two Americans 13. Secrecy for Sale 14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis 15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies 16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies 17. The Scrutable Orientals 18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology") 19. N.S.A. SIDESHOWS 20. The Anatomy of Cryptology 21. Heterogeneous Impulses 22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes 23. Ciphers in the Past Tense 24. The Pathology of Cryptology PARACRYPTOLOGY 25. Ancestral Voices 26. Messages from Outer Space THE NEW CRYPTOLOGY 27. Cryptology Goes Public Bibliography Notes to Text Acknowledgments Notes to Illustrations Index
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Communication Studies, Intelligence & Espionage, Military / General, General
Lccn
96-031318
Dewey Decimal
652.8
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Political Science
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