Title:
Mysterious messages : a history of codes and ciphers
Personal Author EPSB:
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.
Year Published:
2009
Physical Description:
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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 setbacks -- The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown) -- Agony, dancing men and buried treasure -- The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message -- Romance, rum and Romaji -- Hounds, magicians and indians -- Bookies, spies and POWs -- Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos.
Awards:
A Junior Library Guild selection
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780525479604
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2009.
