{"product_id":"the-codebreakers-the-comprehensive-history-of-secret-communication-from-ancient-times-to-the-internet-9780684831305","title":"The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe magnificent, unrivaled history of codes and ciphers--how they're made, how they're broken, and the many and fascinating roles they've played since the dawn of civilization in war, business, diplomacy, and espionage--updated with a new chapter on computer cryptography and the Ultra secret.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMan has created codes to keep secrets and has broken codes to learn those secrets since the time of the Pharaohs. For 4,000 years, fierce battles have been waged between codemakers and codebreakers, and the story of these battles is civilization's secret history, the hidden account of how wars were won and lost, diplomatic intrigues foiled, business secrets stolen, governments ruined, computers hacked. From the XYZ Affair to the Dreyfus Affair, from the Gallic War to the Persian Gulf, from Druidic runes and the kaballah to outer space, from the Zimmermann telegram to Enigma to the Manhattan Project, codebreaking has shaped the course of human events to an extent beyond any easy reckoning. Once a government monopoly, cryptology today touches everybody. It secures the Internet, keeps e-mail private, maintains the integrity of cash machine transactions, and scrambles TV signals on unpaid-for channels. David Kahn's \u003ci\u003eThe Codebreakers\u003c\/i\u003e takes the measure of what codes and codebreaking have meant in human history in a single comprehensive account, astonishing in its scope and enthralling in its execution. Hailed upon first publication as a book likely to become the definitive work of its kind, \u003ci\u003eThe Codebreakers\u003c\/i\u003e has more than lived up to that prediction: it remains unsurpassed. With a brilliant new chapter that makes use of previously classified documents to bring the book thoroughly up to date, and to explore the myriad ways computer codes and their hackers are changing all of our lives, \u003ci\u003eThe Codebreakers\u003c\/i\u003e is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Kahn,  a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of \u003ci\u003eHitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKahn on Codes, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at \u003ci\u003eNewsday, \u003c\/i\u003e he lives in Great Neck, New Y\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50720786448658,"sku":"9780684831305","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb48d420-3b5e-4e72-89b5-297fbf69ecf2.jpg?v=1734676260","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-codebreakers-the-comprehensive-history-of-secret-communication-from-ancient-times-to-the-internet-9780684831305","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}