Ebook: The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell
Author: Mark L. Urban
- Year: 2001
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Language: English
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This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army, during the Peninsular War, used a code of unrivalled complexity - the "Great Paris Cipher". Major George Scovell used a network of Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.
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