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Book Description: Simon and Schuster. Book Condition: New. New, This item can not be shipped Internationl. Bookseller Inventory # 0684831309

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Book Description: SIMON SCHUSTER, United States, 1997. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 2nd Revised edition. 242 x 162 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's "The Codebreakers" takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, "The Codebreakers" has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, "The Codebreakers" is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780684831305

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Book Description: Simon & Schuster. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (2nd Revised edition), David Kahn, The magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers -- how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage -- updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret. Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's "The Codebreakers" takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, "The Codebreakers" has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, "The Codebreakers" is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art. Bookseller Inventory # B9780684831305

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Book Description: 1996. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # EA9780684831305

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Book Description: 1996. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 2nd. 168mm x 59mm x 240mm. 1200 pages. 1.642. Bookseller Inventory # 9780684831305

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Book Description: Simon & Schuster. Book Condition: BRAND NEW. BRAND NEW Hardcover Publisher List Price= $75 A Brand New Quality Book from a Full-Time Bookshop in business since 1992!. Bookseller Inventory # 611267

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Book Description: Scribner Book Company, 1997. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 9.44 by 7 inches. (01200 pages) [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] illustrated Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Hardcover ). Bookseller Inventory # AF0684831309

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Book Description: Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 1367308

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Book Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 2nd. 168mm x 59mm x 240mm. 1200 pages. 1.642. Bookseller Inventory # 9780684831305

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Book Description: Simon & Schuster, 1997. hardback. Book Condition: New. *** NEW COPY *** TITLE SHIPPED FROM UK *** Binding hardback Man has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's. Bookseller Inventory # 0684831309

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