David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.

• CONTENTSPreface to the Revised EditionPrefaceA Few Words1. One Day of MagicTHE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY2. The First 3,000 Years3. The Rise of the West4. On the Origin of a Species5. The Era of the Black Chambers6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes7. Crises of the Union8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island9. Room 4010. A War of Intercepts: I11. A War of Intercepts: II12. Two Americans13. Secrecy for Sale14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies17. The Scrutable Orientals18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")19. N.S.A.SIDESHOWS20. The Anatomy of Cryptology21. Heterogeneous Impulses22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes23. Ciphers in the Past Tense24. The Pathology of CryptologyPARACRYPTOLOGY25. Ancestral Voices26. Messages from Outer SpaceTHE NEW CRYPTOLOGY27. Cryptology Goes PublicBibliographyNotes to TextAcknowledgmentsNotes to IllustrationsIndex

The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force...The volume is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and kingdoms....Magnificent.

David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.

• CONTENTSPreface to the Revised EditionPrefaceA Few Words1. One Day of MagicTHE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY2. The First 3,000 Years3. The Rise of the West4. On the Origin of a Species5. The Era of the Black Chambers6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes7. Crises of the Union8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island9. Room 4010. A War of Intercepts: I11. A War of Intercepts: II12. Two Americans13. Secrecy for Sale14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies17. The Scrutable Orientals18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")19. N.S.A.SIDESHOWS20. The Anatomy of Cryptology21. Heterogeneous Impulses22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes23. Ciphers in the Past Tense24. The Pathology of CryptologyPARACRYPTOLOGY25. Ancestral Voices26. Messages from Outer SpaceTHE NEW CRYPTOLOGY27. Cryptology Goes PublicBibliographyNotes to TextAcknowledgmentsNotes to IllustrationsIndex

The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force...The volume is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and kingdoms....Magnificent.

David Kahn, a recently visiting historian at the National Security Agency, is the world's leading expert on the history of cryptology, and the author of Hitler's Spies, Seizing the Enigma, and Kahn on Codes, as well as articles in numerous popular and technical journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford. An editor at Newsday, he lives in Great Neck, New York.

• CONTENTSPreface to the Revised EditionPrefaceA Few Words1. One Day of MagicTHE PAGENT OF CRYPTOLOGY2. The First 3,000 Years3. The Rise of the West4. On the Origin of a Species5. The Era of the Black Chambers6. The Contribution of the Dilettantes7. Crises of the Union8. The Professor, the Soldier, and the Man on Devil's Island9. Room 4010. A War of Intercepts: I11. A War of Intercepts: II12. Two Americans13. Secrecy for Sale14. Duel in the Ether: The Axis15. Duel in the Ether: Neutrals and Allies16. Censors, Scramblers, and Spies17. The Scrutable Orientals18. Russkaya Kriptologiya ("Russian Cryptology")19. N.S.A.SIDESHOWS20. The Anatomy of Cryptology21. Heterogeneous Impulses22. Rumrunners, Businessmen, and Makers of Non-secret Codes23. Ciphers in the Past Tense24. The Pathology of CryptologyPARACRYPTOLOGY25. Ancestral Voices26. Messages from Outer SpaceTHE NEW CRYPTOLOGY27. Cryptology Goes PublicBibliographyNotes to TextAcknowledgmentsNotes to IllustrationsIndex

The Washington Post Kahn has produced a tour de force...The volume is an anthology of a hundred detective stories, one more ingenious than the last, and all real, central to the fate of armies and kingdoms....Magnificent.