First UK edition hardback, 1999, with unclipped jacket. In overall fine condition in a near-fine, slightly rubbed, dust jacket. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears unopened; no annotation or inscriptions; text, illustrations and code tables bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Code Breaking: A History And Exploration

Publisher

Constable

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0094798907

ISBN 13

9780094798908

Binding

Hardback

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

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Synopsis

A brilliant history and exploration of the art and science of cryptography, from Caesar to computer hackers. Illustrations. 22,500.

About the Author

Rudolf Kippenhahn is the award-winning author of One Hundred Billion Suns and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics inMunich. For ten years he was a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of G�ttingen.

Ewald Osers (1917-2011) was an award-winning translator of Czech and German.

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