codebreakers story secret writing de kahn david (48 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Good. Signet, abridged. Interior clean, unmarked. Binding still strong. Exterior worn. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.).

hardcover. Etat : Very Good. [One of the Best Books on Cryptology, which the US Government attempted to suppress] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Minor shelf wear. Kahn's groundbreaking work in crytology was met with significant resistance from the national security community and NSA. A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers". Macmillan handed over the Kahn's manuscript to the government for review without Kahn's permission in 1966. Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its counterpart in the United Kingdom, GCHQ.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Piece(s) of the spine missing. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Significant damage due to wetness. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is moderately loose. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. dust jacket in myla, worn spine ends.

Etat : New.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Etat : Gut. Reprint. Alle Bücher & Medienartikel von Book Broker sind stets in gutem & sehr gutem gebrauchsfähigen Zustand. Die Ausgabe des gelieferten Exemplars kann um bis zu 10 Jahre vom angegebenen Veröffentlichungsjahr abweichen und es kann sich um eine abweichende Auflage handeln. Unser Produktfoto entspricht dem hier angebotenen Artikel, dieser weist folgende Merkmale auf: Helle/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. Ohne Schutzumschlag. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1800.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. Small jacket tears else near fine.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. former owner's name on front free end paper, otherwise a nice, clean, gently used copy, octavo, 1164 pages, stated first printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. Signed and Dated by Kahn on the title page. Signature only. 1164 pages. Condition is Very Good in a Good dustjacket. Book has clean covers and pages along with a tight, square binding. Jacket has some soiling and wear at spine ends and corners. Second printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.85.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.85.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.85.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.85.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.85.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Previous owner's name sticker on ffep. Previous owner's nameplate stamping press on the title page. 4th printing. Slight discoloration to pages. Multiple small open/close tears along the DJ edges. Some rubbing wear to DJ covers. Minor wear along the edges of the book itself. Tips are slightly bent. No markings on text and/or images.

Hardcover. 1164pp. Very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound without a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardback. Heavy wear and soiling to jacket. Light wear to boards. Text is unmarked. No owners' names/labels. Stated first printing. (Shelf: C5) Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xvi, 1164 p., 24 cm.

Hardcover w/DJ. Etat : Used-Very Good/Used-Good. Black & White Photos & Illus. (illustrateur). First Edition. London, UK: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Used-Very Good/Used-Good. (1967). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. First Printing . Sm 4to., 1164 pp, DJ rubbed, frayed .

Hard Cover/Boards. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good(-). Book contains 1164 with b&w illustrations, charts, etc. DJ has a few small 1/2" tears/chips along top edge. Gift inscription penned in front endpaper. DJ price clipped. The author tells of the secret activities of cryptanalysts and how they determined the outcome of battles and diplomatic coups. He recounts the crptology, portrays the outstanding personalities of the science and outlines the techniques - some electronic - used to break the most advanced machine ciphers.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Seventh printing. Very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. ; 1164 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Book club edition. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket.; 1164 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : good. Fourth Printing. 1164, illus., bibliography, notes, index, top corner of front flyleaf has been cut off, boards slightly scuffed. David Kahn (b. February 7, 1930) is a US historian, journalist and writer. He has written extensively on the history of cryptography and military intelligence. Kahn's first published book, The Codebreakers - The Story of Secret Writing (1967), has been widely considered to be a definitive account of the history of cryptography. Kahn has said he traces his interest in cryptography to reading Fletcher Pratt's Secret and Urgent as a boy. Kahn is a founding editor of the Cryptologia journal. In 1969, Kahn married Susanne Fiedler; they are now divorced. They have two sons, Oliver and Michael. He attended Bucknell University. After graduation, he worked as a reporter at Newsday for several years. He also served as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris for two years in the 1960s. It was during this period that he wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about two defectors from the National Security Agency. This article was the origin of his monumental book, The Codebreakers. The Codebreakers comprehensively chronicles the history of cryptography from ancient Egypt to the time of its writing. It is widely regarded as the best account of the history of cryptography up to its publication. Most of the editing, German translating, and insider contributions were from the American World War II cryptographer, Bradford Hardie III. William Crowell, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was quoted in Newsday as saying "Before he (Kahn) came along, the best you could do was buy an explanatory book that usually was too technical and terribly dull." Kahn, then a newspaper journalist, was contracted to write a book on cryptology in 1961. He began writing it part-time, at one point quitting his regular job to work on it full-time. The book was to include information on the National Security Agency (NSA), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him. A committee of the United States Intelligence Board concluded that the book was "a possibly valuable support to foreign COMSEC [communications security] authorities" and recommended "further low-key actions as possible, but short of legal action, to discourage Mr. Kahn or his prospective publishers". Kahn's publisher, the Macmillan company, handed over the manuscript to the federal government for review without Kahn's permission on March 4, 1966. Kahn and Macmillan eventually agreed to remove some material from the manuscript, particularly concerning the relationship between the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. The Codebreakers was a finalist for the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize in 1968.

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good-. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good-. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. Previous owner's name stamp on rear paste-down. DJ moderately soiled w/ approx. 1/2" closed tear to top edge of spine. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Dark blue 1/4 buckram, burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt and black. Stated 4th ptg. but with BOMC slug at bottom rear corner and unpriced DJ. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover, otherwise about as issued. Dust jacket slightly tanned, with 1/8" closed tear along bottom front edge, now in mylar. xvi,1164 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Back. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Third Printing. 1164 Pages Indexed. Maroon cloth with a blue cloth quarter spine with gold lettering. Top page edges are red. There are three stamps with the appearance of coded letters that may be part of the original print on the front endpaper. This tight square book is in incredibly good condition with interior text pages that are near flawless. Codebreaking is the most important form of secret intelligence in the world today (1968) and in this book the author relates its story fully and accurately. Mr. Kahn takes the reader behind the closed doors of history's "black chambers" and describes their workings. He tells how the secret activities of cryptanalysts have often determined the outcome of battles and diplomatic coups. He recounts the impact of the events that have molded modern cryptology, portrays the outstanding personalities of the science, and outlines the techniques - some electronic - used to break the most advanced machine ciphers. His story stretches from the proto-cryptography of Khnumhotep II to the speculations of scientists on how to solve messages from outer space. But the best part of the book consists of its stories about codes and ciphers. The first chapter is a vivid, suspenseful description of U.S. cryptanalytic operations in late 1941. In some respects, nothing has changed. The Japanese military strategy in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor - total radio silence on the part of Yamamoto's strike force - was brilliant enough. It is forever impossible to extract intelligence from silence. Kahn also gives the reader step-by-step accounts of the thought processes of brilliant cryptanalysts such as the Frenchman Georges Painvin as he single-handedly solves the diabolical German ADFGX system in the First World War. His efforts arguably shortened the war on the Western Front as by the same token the Russian Army lost the crucial Battle of Tannenberg in the East through poor communications security. Kahn's book is an indispensable account of the role cryptanalysis has played and still plays in world history. Contents in 26 Chapters: One Day of Magic, The First 3,000 Years, The Rise of the West, On the Origin of a Species, The Era of the Black Chambers, The Contribution of the Dilettantes, Crises of the Union, The Professor the Soldier and the Man on Devil's Island, Room 40, A War of Intercepts I, A War of Intercepts II, Two Americans, Secrecy for Sale, Duel in the Ether The Axis, Duel in the Ether Neutrals and Allies, Censors Scramblers and Spies, The Scrutable Orientals, PYCCKAR KPIITlTOJI1, N.S.A., The Anatomy of Cryptology, Heterogeneous Impulses, Rumrunners Businessmen and Makers of Non- secret Codes, Ciphers in the Past Tense, The Pathology of Cryptology, Ancestral Voices, and Messages from Outer Space. A large heavy book that may incur additional shipping charges to some locations.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. DJ moderately soiled. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition. 1164 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ gilt title on blue cloth spine. Binding lightly soiled. DJ moderately soiled. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.