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The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes
Author: Mark Urban
History books report -- and rightly so -- that it was the strategic and intelligence-gathering brilliance of the Duke of Wellington (who began his military career as Arthur Wellesley) that culminated in Britain's defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo in 1815. Nearly two hundred years later, many of General Wellesley's subordinates are still r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060188917
ISBN-10: 006018891X
Publication Date: 3/1/2002
Pages: 368
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Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Very interesting and apparently well researched book. Unfortunately less than half the book was actually about Scovell. Too many pages were spent detailing the startegies of the battles Scovell was in, and told stories of the generals and others but not the man whom the book is supposedly about. These pages and effort should have been directed at detailing the steps taken to break the various codes as well as more in depth analysis of the man himself.


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