Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
by Urban, Mark
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 006018891X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060188917
- Seller
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Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
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About This Item
HarperCollins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. 006018891X . Book is clean and tight. Has black remainder mark on top edge. Dust jacket has a little shelf wear on top edge. Biography of cryptographer, George Scovelle, who broke the codes for the Duke of Wellington prior to the Battle of Waterloo. Eighteenth century England. Code-breaker. ; Remainder; 9.56 X 6.46 X 1.24 inches; 348 pages .
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8209
- Title
- Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
- Author
- Urban, Mark
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 006018891X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060188917
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 006018891X, George Scovelle, Cryptography, Great Britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Military History; Biography and Autobiography;
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- Remainder Mark
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- Shelf Wear
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