Mysterious messages
Subtitle: a history of codes and ciphers
By: Gary Blackwood
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780545290081
Subjects: Cryptography; Juvenile literature; History; Ciphers
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical and web references (page 166) and index.
Table of contents: title: Clay, wax and Greece; title: The rise and fall of Rome; title: Ham and Bacon; title: A disk, a grille and a tableau; title: Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim; title: Prisons, pigpens and black chambers; title: The two revolutions; title: Security suffers some severe setbacks; title: The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown); title: Agony, dancing men and buried treasure; title: The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message; title: Romance, rum and Romaji; title: Hounds, magicians and indians; title: Bookies, spies and POWs; title: Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos.