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The codebreakers : the comprehensive history of secret communication from ancient times to the internet (Record no. 605893)
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| fixed length control field | 251229s2025##################000#0#eng## |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780684831305 |
| Paper back/Hardbound | hbk |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 652.8 |
| Item number | KAH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Kahn, David |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The codebreakers : the comprehensive history of secret communication from ancient times to the internet |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / David Kahn |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Scribner |
| Year of publication | 1996 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xviii, 1181 p. |
| Other physical details | : ill. |
| Dimensions | ; 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographies and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Man 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 The Codebreakers 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, The Codebreakers 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, The Codebreakers is the skeleton key to a thousand thrilling true stories of intrigue, mystery, and adventure. It is a masterpiece of the historian's art. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Cryptography History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | English Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Anna Centenary Library | Anna Centenary Library | 6TH FLOOR, A WING | 16.12.2010 | 652.8 KAH | 460838 | 29.12.2025 | Reference |