The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
by Mark Urban
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Details
War:
Napoleonic Wars
Perspective:
Spying
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
368
Published Date:
2002
ISBN13:
9780060188917
Description
The true story of George Scovell follows the engraver's apprentice who possessed extraordinary linguisitic genius as he is assigned to Wellington's headquarters where he easily cracked codes used in French dispatches, but when the enemy changed their tactics from simple ciphers to almost unbreakable encoded messages, he was forced to race against time to save the British army from Napeoleon's deadly machinations.
