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Budiansky, Stephen
Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II
New York Free Press; Simon & Schuster 2000 0684859327 / 9780684859323 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Very Good Fine
436 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "A million pages of new World War II codebreaking records have been released by the U.S. Army and Navy and the British government over the last five years. Now, Battle of Wits presents the history of the war that these documents reveal. From the battle of Midway until the last German code was broken in January 1945, this is an astonishing epic of a war that was won not simply by brute strength but also by reading the enemy's intentions. The revelations of Stephen Budiansky's dramatic history include how Britain tried to manipulate the American codebreakers and monopolize German Enigma code communications; the first detailed published explanations of how the Japanese codes were broken; and how the American codebreaking machines worked to crack the Japanese, the German, and even the Russian diplomatic codes. The compelling narrative shows the crucial effect codebreaking had on the battlefields by explaining the urgency of stopping the wolf pack U-boat attacks in the North Atlantic, the importance of halting Rommel's tanks in North Africa, and the necessity of ensuring that the Germans believed the Allies' audacious deception and cover plans for D-Day. Unveiled for the first time, the complete story of codebreaking in World War II has now been told." - Publisher.
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Budiansky, Stephen
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
New York Viking; Penguin 2005 0670034266 / 9780670034260 Hard Cover Fine Fine
xvii, 235 pp., [8] pp. of plates, illus., biblio.; 22 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "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 loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth's rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her. Though he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeth's worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester before launching his own secret campaign against the Queen's enemies. Covert operations were Walsingham's genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage. In the taut narrative of a spy novel, Budiansky recounts how this legendary spymaster invented the art and science of modern espionage--and in the process set Elizabethan England on the path to empire. / Stephen Budiansky, journalist and military historian, is the author of nine books about history, science, and nature, including Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II. He publishes frequently in The New York Times and The Washington Post and currently serves as a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly." - Publisher.
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Budiansky, Stephen
The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox
New York Viking; Penguin 2008 0670018406 / 9780670018406 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover Fine Fine Collectible
322 pp., [4] leaves of plates, illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. AS NEW. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "An intimate and gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era. Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. That violence was spread by roving vigilantes connected only by ideology, and by the hateful invective printed in widely read newspapers and pamphlets. Amid all the chaos, however, some men and women struggled to establish a 'New South' in which former slaves would have new rights and a new prosperity would be shared by all. In his vivid, fast-paced narrative of the era now known as Reconstruction, Stephen Budiansky illuminates the lives of five remarkable men--two Union officers, a Confederate general, a Northern entrepreneur, and a former slave--whose idealism in the face of overwhelming hatred would not be matched for nearly a century. The Bloody Shirt is a story of violence, racism, division, and heroism that sheds new light on a crucial time in America's history. / Stephen Budiansky is a journalist and military historian whose writings frequently appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic Monthly. His previous books include Her Majesty?s Spymaster, Air Power, and Battle of Wits." - Publisher.
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Budiansky, Stephen
The Truth About Dogs: An Inquiry into the Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits, and Moral Fiber of Canis Familiaris
Harmondsworth Penguin Books 2001 014100228X / 9780141002286 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Good
263 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 20 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Browning. "Dogs: Man's best friends-or canine con artists? For centuries dogs have stolen our hearts, our homes, and our wallets. Just how do dogs get otherwise reasonable adults to feed them sirloin, let them occupy easy chairs, and generally allow them to regulate our every waking hour? In this provocative, entertaining, and wholly admiring reappraisal of our canine companions, Stephen Budiansky calls upon the latest research on dog behavior, genes, and evolution to explain why dogs do what they do, think what they think, and feel what they feel-and how they have come to occupy such a remarkable place in our lives and affections. Challenging many of our accepted ideas about canine intelligence and emotions, Budiansky shows how the very strange things that dogs so often do-fiercely guarding pairs of shoes, barking incessantly at the UPS man, rolling in really foul-smelling things-are the product of a rich blending of their ancient wolf ancestry, their subsequent dramatic evolutionary changes in the company of man, and their ever-so-peculiar modern social environment, neither wolf nor human. This original and insightful reexamination of an animal at once so familiar and so mysterious tells us, for the first time ever, what it truly is to be a dog. / Stephen Budiansky, journalist and military historian, is the author of nine books about history, science, and nature, including Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II. He publishes frequently in The New York Times and The Washington Post and currently serves as a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly." - Publisher.
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