The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes

The Story of George Scovell

Mark L. Urban (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2001
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-20513-4 (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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.9.2001
Zusatzinfo	colour illustrations facsim., maps, portraits (chiefly colour)
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 242 mm
Gewicht	628 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-571-20513-5 / 0571205135
ISBN-13	978-0-571-20513-4 / 9780571205134
Zustand	Neuware