| Description |
170 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Summary |
From the ingenious ciphers of Italian princes to the spy books of the Civil War to the advanced techniques of the CIA, codes and code breaking have played important roles throughout history. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical and web references (page 166) and index. |
| Contents |
Clay, wax and Greece -- The rise and fall of Rome -- Ham and Bacon -- A disk, a grille and a tableau -- Babington, beer and Baconian biliteralisim -- Prisons, pigpens and black chambers -- The two revolutions -- Security suffers some severe setbacks -- The blue and the gray (and the green and the brown) -- Agony, dancing men and buried treasure -- The manuscript, the machine and the Mexican message -- Romance, rum and Romaji -- Hounds, magicians and indians -- Bookies, spies and POWs -- Colossus, Lucifer and Kryptos. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Penguin USA, Inc., 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 97899 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 10904 KB). |
| Subject |
Cryptography -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Ciphers -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Cryptography -- History.
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Ciphers -- History.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Henry, Jason, illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Original 0525479600 (DLC) 2008048970 (OCoLC)272665437 |
| ISBN |
9781101149720 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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1101149728 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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9781101151013 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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1101151013 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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