The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

by Mark L . Urban (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.23

  This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army, during the Peninsular War, used a code of unrivalled complexity - the Great Paris Cipher . Major George Scovell used a network of Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.28

  This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army, during the Peninsular War, used a code of unrivalled complexity - the Great Paris Cipher . Major George Scovell used a network of Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.