50 Codes that Changed the World

Informationen zum Autor Sinclair McKay is a bestelling author and social historian. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley Park Brainteasers as well as the bestselling Secret Life of Bletchley Park, which together have sold over 400,000 copies. He has authored many other books including The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book , The Tower of London Puzzle Book and Secret Britain . He writes for the Spectator and the Telegraph and spends much of his life eyebrow-deep in dusty archives! He lives in east London. Klappentext 'For as long as people have been able to write, there have been people who have sought to disguise their words so that only the initiated could read them. Discover the codes that changed the course of history and encryptions that changed the nature of civilisations, tales once firmly hidden from view, brought into the light.'' Codes are fundamentally about secrets, and the world has always needed secrets. ' Bletchley Park Brainteasers is outrageously difficult but utterly fascinating.' THE EXPRESS Zusammenfassung Uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations, rediscovered and explored in the newest book by the bestselling author and historian, Sinclair McKay.

Product details

• Authors: Sinclair Mckay, McKay Sinclair
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2022
• EAN: 9781472297211
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-9721-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 220 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Non-fiction book; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage, computer science, Puzzles & quizzes, Puzzles and quizzes, Military intelligence, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, Coding theory and cryptology