Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Ciphers - Hardcover

Blackwood, Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525479600 ISBN 13: 9780525479604

Publisher: E P Dutton & Co Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Provides an overview of various types of codes that were used throughout history to send secret messages, including those used by Spartan warriors and Elizabeth I, along with an examination of how the Enigma Machine worked and a review of spy books from the Civil War.

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Gary L. Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen, and has been writing and publishing stories, articles, plays, novels, and nonfiction books regularly ever since. His stage plays have won awards and been produced in university and regional theatre. Nonfiction subjects he's covered include biography, history, and paranormal phenomena. His juvenile novels, which includeWILD TIMOTHY, THE DYING SUN, and THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER, are set in a wide range of times and places, from Elizabethan England to a parallel universe. Several have received special recognition and been translated into other languages. He and his wife and kids live outside Carthage, MO.

Gary L. Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen, and has been writing and publishing stories, articles, plays, novels, and nonfiction books regularly ever since. His stage plays have won awards and been produced in university and regional theatre. Nonfiction subjects he's covered include biography, history, and paranormal phenomena. His juvenile novels, which includeWILD TIMOTHY, THE DYING SUN, and THE SHAKESPEARE STEALER, are set in a wide range of times and places, from Elizabethan England to a parallel universe. Several have received special recognition and been translated into other languages. He and his wife and kids live outside Carthage, MO.

Edition details

• Publisher: E P Dutton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525479600
• ISBN 13: 9780525479604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 170