Название: Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I
Автор: John F. F. Dooley
Издательство: Copernicus
ISBN: 3319294148
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 280
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch.
This book relates the personal experiences of one such character, providing a uniquely American perspective on the Great War. It is a story of spies, coded letters, plots to blow up ships and munitions plants, secret inks, arms smuggling, treason, and desperate battlefield messages. Yet it all begins with a college English professor and Chaucer scholar named John Mathews Manly.