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Author Kahn, David

Title How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code
Published Hoboken : CRC Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (456 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1: How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy; Chapter 2: Did Roosevelt Know?; Chapter 3: Pearl Harbor and the Inadequacy of Cryptanalysis; Chapter 4: How the United States Viewed Germany and Japan in 1941; Chapter 5: Roosevelt, Magic, and Ultra; Chapter 6: Edward Bell and His Zimmermann Telegram Memoranda; Chapter 7: Cryptology and the Origins of Spread Spectrum; Chapter 8: The Rise of Intelligence; Chapter 9: Intelligence in World War II: A Survey; Chapter 10: Why Germany's Intelligence Failed in World War II
Chapter 11: An Enigma ChronologyChapter 12: The Black Code; Chapter 13: Nothing Sacred: The Allied Solution of Vatican Codes in World War II; Chapter 14: Finland's Codebreaking in World War II; Chapter 15: Soviet Comint in the Cold War; Chapter 16: How the Allies Suppressed the Second Greatest Secret of World War II; Chapter 17: An Historical Theory of Intelligence; Chapter 18: Clausewitz on Intelligence; Chapter 19: Surprise and Secrecy: Two Thoughts; Chapter 20: Intelligence Lessons in Macbeth; Chapter 21: How Garbles Tickled History; Chapter 22: The Cryptologic Origin of Braille
Chapter 23: The Only False Message I KnowChapter 24: The Prehistory of the General Staff; Chapter 25: Charles J. Mendelsohn and Why I Envy Him; Chapter 26: The Man in the Iron Mask: Encore et Enfin, Cryptologically; Chapter 27: Students Better than a Pro (Bazeries) and an Author (Candela); Chapter 28: The Old Master of Austrian Cryptology; Chapter 29: Enigma Uncracked: The Allies Fail to Break the German Cipher Machine; Chapter 30: The Future of the Past: Questions in Cryptologic History; Back Cover
Summary INTRODUCTIONHow I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy Who Was the Greatest Spy of World War II? AMERICAN STORIESDid Roosevelt Know? Pearl Harbor and the Inadequacy of Cryptanalysis Appendix: A Japanese CryptosystemThe Woman Who Made the Key DiscoveryHow the United States Viewed Germany and Japan in 1941Roosevelt, Magic, and UltraEdward Bell and His Zimmermann Telegram MemorandaCryptology and the Origins of Spread Spectrum Secret Telephone in the Cabinet War Rooms Defining Terms The First Unbreakable Scrambler Vocoder Speech Synthesizer StudiedEnter the X-System Telephones Protected against
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Electronic intelligence.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Cryptography
Electronic intelligence
Military intelligence
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781466562042
1466562048