Codebreaking goes well beyond the “how” by including historical examples, practical attacks, and challenges to solve. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed impossible. His book explores the history of the Beale treasure and suggests some theories to explain the mystery.

I dare you to find a more diverse, a more mind-blowing, a more intriguing collection of stories about codes and code breaking. As a publisher, I have always been keen to record the experiences of those people personally involved in such things, and Welchman was not just a leading codebreaker at Bletchley Park throughout the whole war, he was also instrumental in transforming a random collection of a hundred academics into a non-stop production line of codebreaking and Intelligence, employing over ten thousand people.I think its a must have for any person related to IT Field to understand what is the importance of Encryption and Decryption through history. Almost as soon as writing was invented, so too were the devious means to hide messages and keep them under the wraps of secrecy. After the war, the US sought to give these non-combatants the highest awards possible — honours that were suppressed by the Australian government in their need for secrecy.

The book takes a firm position that such puzzles can actually be solved and decrypted, and provides expert guidance, methodology and examples.Through the publication of several such guidebooks, Elonka Dunin stood out as primus inter pares among our experts on codes. If your kids love the Explorer Academy series of books they'll love this book that will test their knowledge of ancient codes and ciphers in a series of head-scratching puzzles designed to outwit even the most clever cryptographers. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.