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1.
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by:
Simon Singh
4.30 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
2.
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
by:
David Kahn
4.18 avg rating — 1,502 ratings
3.
Enigma
by:
Robert Harris
3.90 avg rating — 17,937 ratings
4.
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
by:
Lesley Adkins
4.01 avg rating — 434 ratings
5.
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945
by:
Leo Marks
4.25 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
6.
Cryptanalysis: A Study of Ciphers and Their Solution
by:
Helen Fouche Gaines
3.88 avg rating — 165 ratings
7.
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
by:
Martin Gardner
3.87 avg rating — 252 ratings
8.
The Zimmermann Telegram
by:
Barbara W. Tuchman
4.06 avg rating — 5,054 ratings
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Unveiling the Mystic Ciphers: Thomas Anson and the Shepherd's Monument Inscription
by:
Dave Ramsden
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
10.
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,646 ratings
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Yardley's Ace: The Making and Breaking of American Military Intelligence
by:
Michael McKinley
3.43 avg rating — 58 ratings
12.
The Decipherment of Linear B
by:
John Chadwick
4.12 avg rating — 512 ratings
12.
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes: The Story of George Scovell
by:
Mark Urban
3.88 avg rating — 391 ratings
14.
The Gold Bug
by:
Edgar Allan Poe
3.71 avg rating — 7,223 ratings
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The Toad Code
by:
Carol Carrick
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
16.
Letters from Philippa
by:
Anne Graham Estern
4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings
17.
Decrypted Secrets: Methods and Maxims of Cryptology
by:
Friedrich L. Bauer
4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings
17.
The Finn Gang
by:
Martin Waddell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
19.
Codes, Ciphers and Spies: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I
by:
John F. Dooley
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
19.
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.93 avg rating — 2,813 ratings
21.
Games With Codes and Ciphers
by:
Norvin Pallas
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
22.
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
by:
Al Sweigart
4.11 avg rating — 108 ratings
22.
Code Games
by:
Norvin Pallas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
24.
Manual For The Solution Of Military Ciphers
by:
Parker Hitt
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
24.
The Cricket Winter
by:
Felice Holman
3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings
26.
Lorenz: Breaking Hitler's Top Secret Code at Bletchley Park
by:
Jerry Roberts
3.62 avg rating — 76 ratings
26.
The Secret Three
by:
Mildred Myrick
3.94 avg rating — 113 ratings
28.
Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An Edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods
by:
James A. Reeds
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
28.
The Secret of the Simple Code
by:
Nancy Faulkner
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
30.
The Other Side of the Tunnel
by:
Carol Kendall
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
31.
Colossus: The First Electronic Computer
by:
B. Jack Copeland
4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings
31.
Codes & Ciphers/Usborne Superpuzzles, Advanced Level (Superpuzzles Series)
by:
Mark Fowler
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
33.
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken
by:
Dermot Turing
3.97 avg rating — 398 ratings
34.
Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
by:
Michael Smith
3.97 avg rating — 963 ratings
35.
Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park
by:
F.H. Hinsley
3.73 avg rating — 456 ratings
36.
The Bletchley Park Codebreakers
by:
Michael Smith
3.86 avg rating — 84 ratings
37.
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret
by:
Paul Gannon
4.08 avg rating — 152 ratings
38.
Bletchley Park: The Secret Archives
by:
Sinclair McKay
4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings
39.
House of Secrets: A Bletchley Park Novella
by:
W. Len
3.54 avg rating — 37 ratings
40.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
by:
Sinclair McKay
3.80 avg rating — 4,194 ratings
41.
Bletchley Park: Home of the Codebreakers
by:
English Heritage
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
42.
The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes
by:
Gordon Welchman
3.92 avg rating — 263 ratings
43.
The science of secrecy: The secret history of codes and codebreaking
by:
Simon Singh
4.23 avg rating — 204 ratings
44.
The Lost World of Bletchley Park: The Official Illustrated History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre
by:
Sinclair McKay
4.15 avg rating — 272 ratings
45.
Secret Messages: Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945
by:
David Alvarez
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
46.
Enigma: Codebreaking & the Second World War: The True Story Through Contemporary Documents
by:
Oliver Hoare
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
47.
NSA Secrets Declassified: Revolutionary Secrets: Cryptology in the American Revolution and Brigadier John Tiltman: A Giant Among Cryptanalysts - Benedict Arnold, Alan Turing, British Codebreaking
by:
Progressive Management
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
48.
NSA Secrets Declassified: Revolutionary Secrets: Cryptology in the American Revolution and Brigadier John Tiltman: A Giant Among Cryptanalysts - Benedict Arnold, Alan Turing, British Codebreaking
by:
U.S. Government
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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ULTRA and the Army Air Forces in World War II: An Interview with Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Lewis F. Powell, Jr. - ENIGMA, MAGIC, Codebreaking, Crossbow, Colossus, Intelligence
by:
U.S. Government
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
50.
ULTRA and the Army Air Forces in World War II: An Interview with Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Lewis F. Powell, Jr. - ENIGMA, MAGIC, Codebreaking, Crossbow, Colossus, Intelligence
by:
Progressive Management
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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NSA Codebreaking Secrets Revealed: It Wasn't All Magic - The Early Struggle to Automate Cryptanalysis 1930s-1960s - Alan Turing, Vannevar Bush, First Electronic Computers, World War II Codes
by:
U.S. Government
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings