From the fall of Troy to interstellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, Secret Messages is a collection of ninety-five of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history. Authors William S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney have compiled a fascinating array of encrypted communications from a varied field. Many of these examples are from times of war, including the story of how a too simple code was the undoing of Benedict Arnold, and how Commander Jeremiah Denton blinked in Morse code to indicate that his North Vietnamese captors…mehr
From the fall of Troy to interstellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, Secret Messages is a collection of ninety-five of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history. Authors William S. Butler and L. Douglas Keeney have compiled a fascinating array of encrypted communications from a varied field. Many of these examples are from times of war, including the story of how a too simple code was the undoing of Benedict Arnold, and how Commander Jeremiah Denton blinked in Morse code to indicate that his North Vietnamese captors were torturing him. Others are more lighthearted, such as the creative use of hand signals by catchers and managers in modern baseball. And some selections offer a glimpse into how codes are used in everyday life, unbeknownst to most of us, in places like hospitals, police stations, and firehouses. Uncovering hidden layers, Secret Messages will amaze you with its new insights into history and how it has been shaped by cryptography. It also explores the future of encryption, where technology will enable vast amounts of information to be hidden within minuscule hosts such as human DNA, or the dot of an "i." Full of stories of human creativity and ingenuity, Secret Messages is an engaging book that will inspire and delight.
William S. Butler & L. Douglas Keeney have been a writing team for many years. Between them, they have authored more than a dozen books, many of them collaboratively. Their recent titles include This Is Guadalcanal; D-Day: Day of Destiny; No Easy Days; and Tragedy at Sea. They are both natives of and reside in Louisville, Kentucky, with their families.
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Contents Introduction 1: SPECIAL DELIVERY The Bald Message Have a Belt on Me The Hat Trick The Shirt Off Your Back 2: THE FALL OF TROY AND THE ERIE CANAL: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? Where There's Smoke, There's a Message A Towering Message Taking the Long View Smoke Signals Boom Time on the Erie Canal 3: GOVERNMENT SECRETS "Paul Diction Sunk Johnson Imbue Hersal" "Why Buy a Cow When Powdered Milk Is So Cheap?" The Money Code 4: CODES IN CLOTH The Signal Flags of Horatio Nelson Revolutionary Hanky Panky The Quilt Code System Hobo Messages 5: WEARING IT OUT On the Carrier Deck John Dillinger and the Woman in Red In LA, Clothes Make the Man Tying One On 6: WATCH CAREFULLY...VERY CAREFULLY The Story of Jeremiah Denton Carol Burnett's Ear Problem Captain Midnight 7: IT'S ALL SUBLIMINAL Persuasion Science The Message Is...I'm Scared! Better by You, Better Than Me 10 2 4 Secret Slogans Reading You Like a Book 8: SPANKY GOES TO BUCKEYE The Central America Secret Service Codenames The Venona Project 9: IN THE BOOT The Traitor's Code The Death of the First American Martyr 10: IT IS HOT IN SUEZ Gone Fishing Dutch Curtains Sinking the Bismarck The Bent Leg Beam An Unbreakable American Code The Doll Lady A Crossword Spy? "Blessent Mon Coeur d'Une Langueur Monotone" The Joke Bombed 11: DOG LEG LEFT BAT 21 Working the Wall 12: BUSY SIGNALS FOR BUSY PEOPLE What'll Ya Have...The Varsity The Harvey Girls and the Cup and Saucer Code 13: WHEN VOICES WON'T WORK The Lookout Sealed in the Cockpit The Kayaker's Fist Chaos in the Pit 14: I RAISE A MILLION Secret Messages at the Auction Connie Mack, Code Master Baseball Codes 15: THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM The ESP Message The "Mind Readers" The Houdini Message An Arthurian Legend 16: THE MESSAGE IN THE NOTES Paul Is Dead? All the Kingsmen A Mother Goose Mystery The Twelve Days of Persecution? 17: WHAT MORSE WROUGHT ard The Morse Message From the Electrical Field to the Ball Field Taking the Fifth The USS Squalus Stop Your Squawking! 18: CODING OUT LOUD "Dr. Kildare to the ER, Code Blue STAT!" Color Codes Number Codes 19: CHEATS AND SCAMS The Trouble with Bridge Partners A Blackjack Scam 20: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS What Is the Message, O Great Seal? A Message in the Marks The Language of Cattle Brands So You Survived a Shipwreck? 21: THE SECRET MESSAGE MYSTERIES The Secret Message of Dighton Rock The Mongoose Messages The Voynich Manuscript 22: WORD PLAY The Victor Hugo Message Word Play from Voltaire Lewis in Wonderland The Secret of Space Alexander the Great Gets the Message 23: IN PLAIN SIGHT Marry Me! The Lepidoptera Message Corporal Violet 24: WRITE ME A LETTER The Tic Tac Toe System The Basic Tic Tac Toe Code The Spoken Tic Tac Toe Code The Clock Code The Way Out Secret The Double Sided Message Two Fisted Genius 25: NEW MEDIA The Message in the Molecule Internet Messages Watson! QWERTYUIO! SOS! The Arecibo Interstellar Message The Milton Berle Conundrum Resources Index
Contents Introduction 1: SPECIAL DELIVERY The Bald Message Have a Belt on Me The Hat Trick The Shirt Off Your Back 2: THE FALL OF TROY AND THE ERIE CANAL: WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? Where There's Smoke, There's a Message A Towering Message Taking the Long View Smoke Signals Boom Time on the Erie Canal 3: GOVERNMENT SECRETS "Paul Diction Sunk Johnson Imbue Hersal" "Why Buy a Cow When Powdered Milk Is So Cheap?" The Money Code 4: CODES IN CLOTH The Signal Flags of Horatio Nelson Revolutionary Hanky Panky The Quilt Code System Hobo Messages 5: WEARING IT OUT On the Carrier Deck John Dillinger and the Woman in Red In LA, Clothes Make the Man Tying One On 6: WATCH CAREFULLY...VERY CAREFULLY The Story of Jeremiah Denton Carol Burnett's Ear Problem Captain Midnight 7: IT'S ALL SUBLIMINAL Persuasion Science The Message Is...I'm Scared! Better by You, Better Than Me 10 2 4 Secret Slogans Reading You Like a Book 8: SPANKY GOES TO BUCKEYE The Central America Secret Service Codenames The Venona Project 9: IN THE BOOT The Traitor's Code The Death of the First American Martyr 10: IT IS HOT IN SUEZ Gone Fishing Dutch Curtains Sinking the Bismarck The Bent Leg Beam An Unbreakable American Code The Doll Lady A Crossword Spy? "Blessent Mon Coeur d'Une Langueur Monotone" The Joke Bombed 11: DOG LEG LEFT BAT 21 Working the Wall 12: BUSY SIGNALS FOR BUSY PEOPLE What'll Ya Have...The Varsity The Harvey Girls and the Cup and Saucer Code 13: WHEN VOICES WON'T WORK The Lookout Sealed in the Cockpit The Kayaker's Fist Chaos in the Pit 14: I RAISE A MILLION Secret Messages at the Auction Connie Mack, Code Master Baseball Codes 15: THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM The ESP Message The "Mind Readers" The Houdini Message An Arthurian Legend 16: THE MESSAGE IN THE NOTES Paul Is Dead? All the Kingsmen A Mother Goose Mystery The Twelve Days of Persecution? 17: WHAT MORSE WROUGHT ard The Morse Message From the Electrical Field to the Ball Field Taking the Fifth The USS Squalus Stop Your Squawking! 18: CODING OUT LOUD "Dr. Kildare to the ER, Code Blue STAT!" Color Codes Number Codes 19: CHEATS AND SCAMS The Trouble with Bridge Partners A Blackjack Scam 20: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS What Is the Message, O Great Seal? A Message in the Marks The Language of Cattle Brands So You Survived a Shipwreck? 21: THE SECRET MESSAGE MYSTERIES The Secret Message of Dighton Rock The Mongoose Messages The Voynich Manuscript 22: WORD PLAY The Victor Hugo Message Word Play from Voltaire Lewis in Wonderland The Secret of Space Alexander the Great Gets the Message 23: IN PLAIN SIGHT Marry Me! The Lepidoptera Message Corporal Violet 24: WRITE ME A LETTER The Tic Tac Toe System The Basic Tic Tac Toe Code The Spoken Tic Tac Toe Code The Clock Code The Way Out Secret The Double Sided Message Two Fisted Genius 25: NEW MEDIA The Message in the Molecule Internet Messages Watson! QWERTYUIO! SOS! The Arecibo Interstellar Message The Milton Berle Conundrum Resources Index
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