An edition of Mysterious messages
(2010)
Mysterious messages
a history of codes and ciphers
by Gary Blackwood
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From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history.
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Mysterious messages: a history of codes and ciphers
2010, Scholastic
in English
0545290082 9780545290081
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Table of Contents
Clay, wax and Greece
The rise and fall of Rome
Ham and Bacon
A disk, a grille and a tableau
Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim
Prisons, pigpens and black chambers
The two revolutions
Security suffers some severe setbacks
The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown)
Agony, dancing men and buried treasure
The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message
Romance, rum and Romaji
Hounds, magicians and indians
Bookies, spies and POWs
Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos.
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Includes bibliographical and web references (page 166) and index.
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