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Author
Language
English
Description
"A nuts-and-bolts explainer book that explores what cryptography does, how it keeps us secure in cyberspace, and why it is so controversial. Though we may not see it, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives, from the movies we stream and our Google searches to even opening our car doors with electronic key fobs. Broadly defined as a set of tools for establishing the basic elements of security in cyberspace, cryptography enables us...
Author
Publisher
Slewfoot Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
364 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Hints, legends and theories have swirled around Bacon for hundreds of years, speculating he wrote the works of Shakespeare, and even that he was the secret son of Queen Elizabeth I. Yet, no one has ever found documentation proving any of these assertions. This book provides answers to the following: What if a document existed confirming Sir Francis Bacon wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare? What if that same document included the name of the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of various types of codes that were used throughout history to send secret messages, including those used by Spartan warriors, Elizabeth I, Navajo Code talkers, and Cold War spies.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction manuscript for young readers about a group of Allied spies and codebreakers that cracked the Nazis's infamous cypher, allowing them to read secret military messages and turn the tide of World War II. During WWII, as the Germans waged war, every Nazi plan, every attack, was sent over radio. But to the Allies listening in, the messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cypher-unless you could unlock...
7) War of shadows: codebreakers, spies, and the secret struggle to drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xix, 474 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This cinematic story of the race for information in the North African theater of World War II portrays the conflict not as an inevitable clash of heroes and villains but as a spiraling series of failures, accidents and desperate triumphs that decided the fate of the Middle East.
8) Code talker
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pelican Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The author's great-uncle John Bear King was a Sioux Indian in the First Cavalry in the Second World War. Her book follows seven Sioux who put aside a long history of prejudice against their people and joined the fight against Japan, using their native language as a secret code for the Americans. The Sioux and other tribal code-talking groups have historically taken a backseat to the Navajo Code Talkers, until a presidential act of recognition was...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke-these young people had no idea what kind...
Author
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 123 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Through Thomas H. Begay's singular story, this richly illustrated biography for young readers describes aspects of Navajo history and culture and shows how a select group of Navajo soldiers used their native Diné language to invent and operate a secret communications system that was crucial to a US victory in the Pacific during World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss, praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, comes another fascinating story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM. One of the founders of U.S. cryptology who would eventually become one of the world's greatest code breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980) was a brilliant...
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