Code warriors : NSA's codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
327.73047/BUDIANSKY,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 389 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385352666, 0385352662
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Russian Problem -- Unbreakable Codes -- Learning to Lie -- Digital Dawn -- Shooting Wars -- "An Old Mule Skinner" -- Brains Versus Bugs -- Days of Crisis -- Reinventing the Wheel -- Brute Force and Legerdemain
"A sweeping history of the NSA and its codebreaking achievements from World War II through the Cold War shares insights into the challenges faced by cryptanalysts and their role in some of the most complicated events of the twentieth century,"--NoveList