The codebreakers : the story of secret writing /
The first comprehensive history of secret communication from ancient times to the threshold of outer space.
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Macmillan,
c1967.
New York : [1967] |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- A few words
- One day of MAGIC
- The pageant of cryptology. The first 3,000 years
- The rise of the West
- On the origin of a species
- The era of the black chambers
- The contribution of the dilettantes
- Crises of the Union
- The professor, the soldier, and the man on Devil's Island
- Room 40
- A war of intercepts
- Two Americans
- Secrecy for sale
- Duel in the ether : the Axis
- Duel in the ether : neutrals and Allies
- Censors, scramblers, and spies
- The scrutable orientals
- PYCCKAR KPNNTONOTNR
- N.S.A.
- Sideshows. The anatomy of cryptology
- Heterogeneous impulses
- Rumrunners, businessmen, and makers of non-secret codes
- Ciphers in the past tense
- The pathology of cryptoloy
- Paracryptology. Ancestral voices
- Messages from outer space.