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1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) |
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Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Foreword ; Preface ; Introduction ; Glossary ; Espionage-General; Road Building, Communications, Tradecraft; The Ancient Near East ; Mesopotamia and Palestine ; Egypt; Assyria and Babylonia ; Persia; Greece ; General; The Skytale ; Tachygraphy ; The Spartan Krypteia ; Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age; The Roman Republic General ; General; Tironian Notes ; The Roman Empire ; General; Signalling; The Byzantine Empire ; General; Greek Fire ; Medieval World ; General; Dubthach Cipher & the Bamberg Cryptogram; Oghams ; Bacon Cipher; Runes |
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The Voynich Manuscript The Islamic World ; General; Yezidis ; Russia, China, India, Africa ; Russia; China and Southeast Asia ; India; Africa; An Unsolved Cryptogram: The Sator Rebus ; Index |
| Summary |
""Splendid ... excellent indexes ... a wealth of information ... recommended""--Booklist; ""well researched, organized and indexed ... an excellent work ... highly recommended""--Choice; ""very valuable""--The NYMAS Review; ""delightful ... impressive ... highly informative""--Reference & User Services Quarterly; ""essential""--CIA Website; ""very valuable""--www.strategypage.com; ""immensely useful""--Military History; ""comprehensive ... worthwhile""--Cryptologia. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive guide to the literature of ancient intelligence. The entries present books and periodical article |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Intelligence service -- History -- To 1500 -- Bibliography
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Espionage -- History -- To 1500 -- Bibliography
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REFERENCE -- Bibliographies & Indexes.
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Espionage
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Intelligence service
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Services de renseignements -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500 -- Bibliographie.
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Espionnage -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 1500 -- Bibliographie.
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476610993 |
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1476610991 |
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