Full name: The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell

Author: Mark Urban Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780571205387 0571205380

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. Similar books: Fusiliers by Mark Urban Napoleon and Wellington by Andrew Roberts The Campaigns of Napoleon by David G. Chandler Rifles by Mark Urban The Fall of Napoleon by David Hamilton-Williams Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell A Higher Call by Adam Makos Devotion by Adam Makos The Last Punisher by Kevin Lacz The Admirals by Walter R. Borneman Boyd by Robert Coram Beyond The Call by Lee Trimble Legend by Eric Blehm American Caesar by William Manchester Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer Where the Birds Never Sing by Jack Sacco Patton by Carlo D'Este The Good War by Studs Terkel The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson