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Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers

text Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers

Blackwood, Gary L.

Summary

From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history.

Contents
Clay, wax and Greece -- The rise and fall of Rome -- Ham and Bacon -- A disk, a grille and a tableau -- Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim -- Prisons, pigpens and black chambers -- The two revolutions -- Security suffers some severe setbac... Read more
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Description
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books 2009
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Woodmere (Main Branch) J 652.8 BLA in Juvenile Nonfiction Reshelving

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