The man who broke Napoleon's codes

Door: Mark Urban

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• ISBN: 9780571205134
• Boekreferentie: Frankrijk
• Uitgever: Faber and Faber
• Taal: ------------------
• Categorie: Kennis en wetenschap
• Details: Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, Redelijk, Met iets slijtage, verkleurd. Net boek.
• Extra informatie: In this account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, Mark Urban shows Scovell to be a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the twentieth century. Using a network of Spanish guerillas, Scovell amassed a stack of coded French messages, and set to work decrypting them. But as a man of low birth, Scovell - even with his genius for languages, and bravery on a dozen battlefields - struggled for advancement amongst Wellington's inner circle of richer, better con
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