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The reader of gentlemen's mail : Herbert O. Yardley and the birth of American codebreaking by David Kahn is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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One of the most colourful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States
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- Author
- David Kahn
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300098464
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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