The hidden history of code-breaking
the secret world of cyphers uncrackable codes and elusive encryptions
The hidden history of code-breaking
the secret world of cyphers uncrackable codes and elusive encryptions
Book - 2023
A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations.
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2023.
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| Edición: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The codes of the ancients -- The cipher masterminds -- The bible enigmas -- Pyramid power -- The secret ciphers of love -- The axeman's enigmas -- The poetry of codes -- Victorian encryptions -- Ciphers of the great war -- A continent of codes -- Enigma and its variations -- The star-spangled cryptographers -- Codes from the future -- Answers. | |
| 520 | |a A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations. | ||
| 520 | |a There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. McKay takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, we will see how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations. -- adapted from jacket | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Ciphers |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cryptography |x History. | |
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