Espionage and Cryptography

Features

Battle Of Wits

An excerpt from "Battle Of Wits: The Complete Story Of Codebreaking In World War II" by Stephen Budiansky. In this chapter, Budiansky engagingly examines how codebreaking enabled the decisive Midway victory.

A Codemaker's War

An excerpt from "Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War, 1941-1945" by Leo Marks. Marks was an agent for Britain's SOE and was involved in some of the most dramatic secret operations of the war.