Description: Further DetailsTitle: The CodebreakersCondition: NewSubtitle: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the InternetISBN-10: 0684831309EAN: 9780684831305ISBN: 9780684831305Publisher: ScribnerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/07/1997Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmItem Width: 61mmItem Weight: 1665gAuthor: David KahnGenre: Business & FinanceTopic: History, Language & Reference, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Codebreakers
Title: The Codebreakers
Subtitle: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Ti
ISBN-10: 0684831309
EAN: 9780684831305
ISBN: 9780684831305
Release Date: 10/07/1997
Release Year: 1997
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 1200 Pages
Publication Name: Codebreakers : the Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Year: 1996
Item Height: 2.4 in
Subject: Communication Studies, Intelligence & Espionage, Military / General, General
Item Weight: 58.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: David Kahn
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
