THE MAN WHO BROKE NAPOLEON'S CODES: The Story of George Scovell
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ISBN: 0571205380 / Publisher: Faber & Faber, January 2001
This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napole...
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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. George Scovell used Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.
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