The Man Who Broke Napoleons Codes by Urban, Mark

ISBN: 006018891X

Author: Urban, Mark

Condition: new

The true story of George Scovell follows the engravers apprentice who possessed extraordinary linguisitic genius as he is assigned to Wellingtons 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 Napeoleons deadly machinations.

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