From msuinfo!caen!malgudi.oar.net!chemabs!jac54 Tue Jan 19 19:12:59 1993
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From: jac54@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: History of cryptography (rather long)
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In article <1993Jan18.154916.7507@cas.org> jac54@cas.org () writes:
>In article <C0xr4z.MuM@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
>>In article <adrian.727124671@milton> adrian@milton.u.washington.edu (Adrian Mariano) writes:
>>:I am looking for books or chapters of books which discuss in any way,
>>:the history of cryptography. I want examples of uses of cryptography
>>:in the past, or examples of methods of cryptography that were used in
>>:the past.
>>:
>>:I currently have
>>: The Code Breakers by David Kahn
>>: The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford
>>:on my list.
>>:
>>:Can anyone suggest other references?
>>
>>There's a popular biog of Alan Turing that has a couple of interesting bits,
>
> The Hut Six Story by Gordon Welchman
>
> 40 O.B by Hugh Cleland Hoy
>
> At least half the catalogue of Aegean Park Press :-).
>
> Alec Chambers

To follow up further, I searched a database of relevant literature
last night and came up with the following.

Title Author Publisher

Top Secret Ultra Calvocoressi, Sphere (paperback)
Peter

Man Who Broke Purple, The Clarke, Ronald Little,Brown

Zimmerman Telegram, The Friedman& APP*
Mendelsohn

Double Edged Secrets Holmes, W.J. Naval Institute Press

Intelligence and Crypt- James, Adm. APP
analytic activities of the Sir William
British Navy in WWI

ULTRA Kesaris, Paul University Publications
of America

American magic Lewin, Ronald Farrar Strauss

Secret and Urgent Pratt, Fletcher Bobbs-Merrill

American Black Chamber, The Yardley, Bobbs-Merrill
Herbert O.

Lincoln in the Telegraph Bates, David H. Appleton-Century
Office

Very Special Admiral Beesley, Patrick Hamish Hamilton

Very Special Intelligence ditto ditto

Ultra in the West Bennett, Ralph Simon&Schuster

What Fools We Were Cockerill, Hutchinson
Sir George

Man of Room 40, The Ewing, Alfred W. Hutchinson

Solving German Codes in WWI Friedman, APP
William F.

Breach of Security Irving, David William Kimber

Mary Queen of Scots and Pollen, J.H. University of
the Babbington Plot Edinburgh

Secret Capture, The Roskill, Collins
Stephen W.

Annotated Bibliography of Shulman, David Garland
Cryptography

Enigma Bertrand, Librairie Plon (Paris)
Gustave

Knox Brothers, The Fitzgerald, Coward-McCann
Penelope

Enigma War, The Garlinski, Scribner's
Josef

Seizing the Enigma Kahn, David Houghton Miflin

Deadly Magic van der Rhoer, Robert Hale
E

Broken Seal, The Farago, Ladislas (can't remember)

Zimmerman Telegram, The Tuchmann, Barbara ditto

These will not all be easy to find and neither is the list exhaustive.

*APP= Aegean Park Press
P.O.Box 2837
Laguna Hills
CA 92654

Phone: 714 586-8811

Alec Chambers