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19795 vols. in 6., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured endpaper maps; green cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the UK government's official series 'The History of the Second World War'. The complete set comprises Vol. I (1979), Vol. 2 (1981), Vol. 3 Part 1 (1984), Vol. 3 Part 2 (1988), Vol. 4: Security and Counter-Intelligence (1990) and Vol. 5: Strategic Deception (1990). Contributors include E E Thomas, CFG Ransom, RC Knight, CAG Simkins and Michael Howard, INCREASINGLY SCARCE AS SET, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
19988vo., Third Impression, with 19 plates on 8 and numerous figures in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Classic and long-awaited account of SOE cryptography by a legendary wartime expert. Marks wrote the famous poem 'The Life that I have' which he subsequently gave to Violette Szabo as her code key, and discloses here for the first time the story of the code war between SOE and the enemy in Holland. After WWII, Marks went on to become a prize-winning scriptwriter (he wrote Michael Powell's cult classic feature film 'Peeping Tom').
20008vo., First Edition, with plates; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.
1977rif. 86176Keene NH: TSU Press 1977. No statement of printing or edition. Inscribed illegibly on title page signed by the author undated. Quarto 28cm. Side-stapled sheets; printed from typescript; 110pp. Fine. An attempt to reconstruct the history and chronology of the tactical use of "Ultra" - the top-secret decryption technique pionered at Bletchley Park in England - by American forces in WW2. At the time this work was assembled all government documents on Ultra remained classified; Bell through a mult-year effort was able to obtain three pertinent reports Freedom of Information Act; they are reproduced with redactions here: George C. Marshall's Order of March 15 1944; "Synthesis of Experiences in the Use of Ultra Intelligence by U.S. Army Field Commands" 1944; and "Use of CX/MSS Ultra by the United States War Department" 1945. Self-published and uncommon. TSU Press unknown
1976xvi, [4], 154, [2], 154, [4], 14, 47, [1], 2, 1 pages. List of black and white illustrations. Shulman spent twenty-five years researching this work and wrote it with librarians, students of cryptography, and book collectors in mind. An introduction preceeds the following six sections: works relating directly to ciphers from 1518 to 1976, chronological list of works relating indirectly to cryptography, chronological list of manuscripts, alphabetical index of authors and translators, chronological list of patents on cryptographic devices from 1874 through 1953, sample list of books on cryptography written in languages other than English. From the library of Philip Mills Arnold whose bookplate is mounted inside front board. Arnold, a student of semeiology, explored the history of communication, from efforts to relate through universal languages and alphabets, to systems to conceal, specifically, codes and ciphers. A Semeiology collection named in his honor is maintained at Washington University. In his professional life Arnold spent nearly forty years with Phillips Petroleum, retiring in 1976 as V.P. of Research and Development with 22 patents to his name. Moderate wear. Occasional light pencil marginalia. A sound association copy of this invaluable cryptographic reference. Book
rif. 101335Springer Springer, 2006 (copyright), 335 p., cartonnage éditeur, environ 24x16cm, bon état et intérieur très propre.