The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions - Hardcover

McKay, Sinclair

 
9781639364343: The Hidden History of Code-Breaking: The Secret World of Cyphers, Uncrackable Codes, and Elusive Encryptions
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 163936434X ISBN 13: 9781639364343
Verlag: Pegasus Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A fascinating exploration of the uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations.

There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament, too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy.

In The Hidden History of Code Breaking, Sinclair McKay explores these uncrackable codes, secret cyphers and hidden messages from across time to tell a new history of a secret world. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, we will see how a few concealed words could help to win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations.

Here is the complete guide to the hidden world of codebreaking, with opportunities for you to see if you could have cracked some of the trickiest puzzles and lip-chewing codes ever created.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sinclair McKay is the author of The Hidden History of Code-Breaking among other books published in Britain. He is a literary critic for The Telegraph and The Spectator and lives in London.

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Verlag
Pegasus Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
163936434X
ISBN 13 
9781639364343
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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