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The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

By Mark L. Urban

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2001
ISBN
0571205135, 9780571205134
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2010869 bytes)
Pages
354\0
Time added
2013-11-06 06:37:37

Description

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.

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