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Codebreaking Books
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,219 ratings — published 2010
Enigma (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,170 ratings — published 1995
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,326 ratings — published 2017
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 29,409 ratings — published 2017
Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2000
Enigma: The Battle for the Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,110 ratings — published 2000
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.98 — 391 ratings — published 2000
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,613 ratings — published 1999
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,580 ratings — published 2015
Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2009
MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945 (Modern War Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 1991
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.72 — 214,615 ratings — published 2012
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,505 ratings — published 1967
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,647 ratings — published 1998
Seizing The Enigma: The Race To Break The German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.94 — 916 ratings — published 1991
A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway and the (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Keeping the Secret: The WAVES & NCR Dayton, OH 1932-1946 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,505 ratings — published 2020
The Meaning Of You (Fisher & Church #1)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.43 — 541 ratings — published
The Ophelia Network (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.45 — 588 ratings — published 2022
Have His Carcase (Lord Peter Wimsey, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,706 ratings — published 1932
Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 43 ratings — published 2006
The Enigma Affair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.84 — 944 ratings — published 2022
Bletchley Park: Home of the Codebreakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 13 ratings — published 2014
The Enigma Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,845 ratings — published 2020
The Codebreaker's Secret (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,063 ratings — published 2022
Geniuses at War: Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 555 ratings — published 2021
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.97 — 968 ratings — published 1998
Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.95 — 150 ratings — published
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: How Australia’s Signals-Intelligence Network Helped Win the Pacific War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 68 ratings — published 2017
The science of secrecy: The secret history of codes and codebreaking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.23 — 204 ratings — published 1999
Cyber Security: Comprehensive Beginners Guide to Learn the Basics and Effective Methods of Cyber Security (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.69 — 26 ratings — published
Ultra in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 1979
Most Secret War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.37 — 538 ratings — published 1978
Bitterblue (Graceling Realm, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 123,340 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor's Codes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 339 ratings — published 2000
West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy - A Documentary History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
The Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.13 — 15 ratings — published 2011
Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 84 ratings — published 1995
The Story of Magic, Memoirs of an American Cryptologic Pioneer (Cryptography)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1998
The Six Unsolved Ciphers: Inside the Mysterious Codes That Have Confounded the World's Greatest Cryptographers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.51 — 53 ratings — published 2006
Secret History of World War II, The: Spies, Code Breakers, and Covert Operations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2016
Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 419 ratings — published 2011
The Ultra Americans: The U.S. Role in Breaking the Nazi Codes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 1986
The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers, and the Defeat of Japan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.45 — 20 ratings — published 1982
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes : The Story of George Scovell (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.88 — 394 ratings — published 2001
Deadly Magic: A Personal Account of Communications Intelligence in World War II in the Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Chinese Black Chamber: An Adventure in Espionage (English and Chinese Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.52 — 25 ratings — published 1983
The American Black Chamber (Bluejacket Books)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 136 ratings — published 1931
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency from the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as codebreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,795 ratings — published 2001
“Over and over again, gazing at what seemed random in the world, Elizebeth founda tiny spot of sense, and then she stood on that spot and invented a system to transform the rest of the landscape all the way out to the horizon, and this is still the process today.”
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
― The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies
“Memories. They are like matryoshka dolls, yes?"
[Lily] looked at Mr. Martin again, brows knit. "What kind of dolls?"
He cupped his hands, then brought them closer together. "They...nest. Nesting dolls? You know them by this name, perhaps?"
"Oh! Yes, of course. ...Memories /are/ like that, to be sure. As soon as you peek at one, another reveals itself, and then another.”
― A Portrait of Loyalty
[Lily] looked at Mr. Martin again, brows knit. "What kind of dolls?"
He cupped his hands, then brought them closer together. "They...nest. Nesting dolls? You know them by this name, perhaps?"
"Oh! Yes, of course. ...Memories /are/ like that, to be sure. As soon as you peek at one, another reveals itself, and then another.”
― A Portrait of Loyalty
