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"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969)
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ZIN Product Number: 10004192
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 Format: Hardcover, 348 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 006018891X
Release Date: Jan 2, 2003
| |  | | | In Brief
Most of the romantic stories about codes and code breaking have come of late from World War II, perhaps because of the connection with computers. But journalist Urban ran across a tale set in the Iberian Peninsula between 1807 and 1814, when the French, the British, and the native Spaniards and Portuguese were locked in conflict and intrigue. The hero is engraver's apprentice, linguist, and cryptographer George Scovell. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
| | | | From The Publisher
"History books report - and rightly so - that it was the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance of the Duke of Wellington (who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley) that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. Nearly two hundred years later, many of General Wellesley's subordinates are still remembered for their crucial roles in these historic campaigns. But Lt. Col. George Scovell is not among them." "The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes is the story of a man of common birth - bound, according to the severe social strictures of eighteenth-century England, for the life of a tradesman - who would in time become his era's most brilliant code-breaker and an officer in Wellesley's army. In an age when officers were drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the nobility, George Scovell - an engraver's apprentice - joined Wellesley in 1809. Scovell provides a fascinating lens through which to view a critical era in military history - his treacherous rise through the ranks, despite the scorn of his social betters and his presence alongside Wellesley in each of the major European campaigns, from the Iberian Peninsula through Waterloo." But George Scovell was more than just a participant in those events. Already recognized as a gifted linguist, Scovell would prove a remarkably nimble cryptographer. Encoded military communiques between Napoleon and his generals, intercepted by the British, were brought to Scovell for his skilled deciphering. As Napoleon's encryption techniques became ever more sophisticated, Wellesly came to rely ever more on Scovell's genius for this critical intelligence.
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