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The Top Secret History of Codes and Codebreaking

by Roy Apps (author)

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Suitable for 9 - 12 years

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Product description

Explore the history of codes from The Haircut Code, used by the Persians to convey messages in war, to Ancient Hebrew ciphers, pictorial codes of the Egyptians and Mayans to letter codes in ancient Rome and substitution ciphers used in Tudor England when the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots was being planned. Find out about modern-day codes, such as tennis players Laura Robson and Heather Watson’s ‘back slang’ when playing doubles and computer codes in the 21st century including the safety of passwords.

This book features strange-but-true facts that are real-life extraordinary stories of codes and their code breakers and ‘Code Cracker’ practical activities show how you can build or solve your own codes!

Product Details

Catalogue number

6436 in Primary Schools Catalogue 2019/20 and 2125 in Reading Collections 2019-20

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780750298841

Publisher

Wayland (Publishers) Ltd

Date published

February 1st, 2018

Other details

32 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Roy Apps

As well as How to Handle, Roy Apps has written the Stacey Stone series for the fiction list. He has also done a lot of script writing, and been heavily involved in Biker Grove’s success.