Singh, Simon, — THE CODE BOOK - The Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking.
Fourth Estate, London, ND (circa 2000), reprint, trade paperback, xiv, 402pp, half tone ills., maps, diagrams and tables in text, coloured lettered wrappers, a history of codes and cryptographers, from the time of Mary Queen of Scots through to encryption on the internet and beyond, a story of espionage, intrigue, intellectual brilliance and military cunning, and of the various codes and cyphers that have been devised or de-coded, lightly rubbed at tips, a little bumped at tail of spine, faint creasing to spine, edges tanned, very good,