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Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I

Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I

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Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 3319294148
ISBN13: 9783319294148
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 8 2016
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch. This book relates the personal experiences of one such character, providing a uniquely American perspective on the Great War. It is a story of spies, coded letters, plots to blow up ships and munitions plants, secret inks, arms smuggling, treason, and desperate battlefield messages. Yet it all begins with a college English professor and Chaucer scholar named John Mathews Manly.

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