Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes

The Story of George Scovell

Mark Urban (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2002
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
9780571205387 (ISBN)

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This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. George Scovell used Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.

This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army, during the Peninsular War, used a code of unrivalled complexity - the "Great Paris Cipher". Major George Scovell used a network of Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.

Mark Urban is Diplomatic and Defence Editor for Newsnight. He is the author of, among others, Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA, Rifles and Fusiliers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	8.7.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-13	9780571205387 / 9780571205387
Zustand	Neuware