Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated ...
Stephen BudianskyIn March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today,...
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I,...
Stephen BudianskyQueen Elizabeth I and England's First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely lo...
Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and...
Stephen BudianskyA sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous "cult of silence" has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that...