Author: Urban, Mark,
Title: THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES - The Story of George Scovell.
Description: Faber and Faber, London, 2001, 1st edn., xvi inc. map, 333pp, 8pp coloured, half tone and sepia ills., 6 in text maps, coloured figured endpapers, black clooth lettered in light green at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the officer who broke the French code during the Peninsular war, Major George Scovell, a man of low birth with a geniius for languages he used a network of Spanish guerillas and amassed a stack of coded French messages to break most of the 'Great Paris Cypher', giving Wellington vital intelligence about French movements and intentions, edges stanned, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: military history napoleon code-breaker scovell spain wellington intelligence codes great paris cypher
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Title: THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES - The Story of George Scovell.
Description: Faber and Faber, London, 2001, 1st edn., xvi inc. map, 333pp, 8pp coloured, half tone and sepia ills., 6 in text maps, coloured figured endpapers, black clooth lettered in light green at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the officer who broke the French code during the Peninsular war, Major George Scovell, a man of low birth with a geniius for languages he used a network of Spanish guerillas and amassed a stack of coded French messages to break most of the 'Great Paris Cypher', giving Wellington vital intelligence about French movements and intentions, edges stanned, fine in a fine dustwrapper,
Keywords: military history napoleon code-breaker scovell spain wellington intelligence codes great paris cypher
Price: GBP 11.50 = appr. US$ 16.42 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 42322
- Book number: 42322
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