50 Codes that Changed the World: . . . And Your Chance to Solve Them! - Hardcover

McKay, Sinclair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472297210 ISBN 13: 9781472297211

Verlag: Headline Book Publishing, 2022

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Uncrackable codes and secret cyphers that helped win wars, spark revolutions and change the faces of nations, rediscovered and explored in the newest book by the bestselling author and historian, Sinclair McKay.

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Sinclair McKay is a bestelling author and social historian. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Bletchley Park Brainteasers as well as the bestselling Secret Life of Bletchley Park, which together have sold over 400,000 copies. He has authored many other books including The Scotland Yard Puzzle Book, The Tower of London Puzzle Book and Secret Britain. He writes for the Spectator and the Telegraph and spends much of his life eyebrow-deep in dusty archives! He lives in east London.

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'For as long as people have been able to write, there have been people who have sought to disguise their words so that only the initiated could read them. Discover the codes that changed the course of history and encryptions that changed the nature of civilisations, tales once firmly hidden from view, brought into the light.''

Codes are fundamentally about secrets, and the world has always needed secrets.


'Bletchley Park Brainteasers is outrageously difficult but utterly fascinating.' THE EXPRESS

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A CUNNING CHRONICLE OF THE 50 CODES THAT ALTERED THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND CHANGED THE WORLD . . . AND YOUR CHANCE TO SOLVE THEM!

There have been secret codes since before the Old Testament, and there were secret codes in the Old Testament too. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy.

Discover uncrackable codes, secret cyphers and hidden messages from across time that reveal a new history of a secret world. From the temples of Ancient Greece to the court of Elizabeth I; from antique manuscripts whose codes might hold prophecies of doom to the modern realm of quantum mechanics, you will see how a few concealed phrases could help win wars, spark revolutions and even change the faces of great nations.

Secrets are there to be discovered, if you have the skills to decrypt them.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Headline Book Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1472297210
• ISBN 13: 9781472297211
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Headline; https://store.headline.co.uk; ; Carmelite House 50 Victoria Embankment; London; EC4Y 0DZ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Verantwortliche Person: Hachette Ireland; info@hbgi.ie; ; 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock Road, Castleknock, Dublin 15, D15 XTP3; Dublin; Irland