Cryptography and the World Wars by Charles River Editors (.PDF)
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Cryptography and the World Wars: The History of Codemaking and Codebreaking during Both Global Conflicts by Charles River Editors
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Overview: World War I stood apart in many ways from earlier wars, not least in the way that it reached to nearly every corner of the planet and involved a noticeable segment of humanity’s collective resources. Battles erupted not only on land and the sea’s surface as they had for centuries, but also in the ocean depths and the windswept heights of the sky.
Nearly every conceivable terrain saw use as a battlefield: the neat farmland and small towns of Western Europe; the streets of major cities; thick forests; open steppes stretching for hundreds of miles; deserts in Africa; rugged mountain ranges; and many other regions of the globe. But one of the war’s most crucial struggles happened in the realm of the unseen, inside the human mind and amid the invisible flow of radio waves. Every war is a battle of wits as intelligence-gathering, tactics, and strategies clash, from the level of individual action up to the grand, overarching schemes of generals and statesmen. Intelligence took on a freshly urgent aspect in the Great War, however, as the fates of offensives, armies, and nations came to hang on the struggle to decrypt vital enemy radio traffic and military communications.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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