A young man from Queens jumps into the thick of World War II intelligence activities by translating secret Japanese messages
George Henry Sharpe’s Bureau of Military Information helped win the Civil War—and is especially worth remembering today
Without his brilliance at espionage the Revolution could not have been won
A former Department of Defense adviser—one of Robert S. McNamara’s Whiz Kids—explains why we tend to overestimate Russian strength, and why we underestimate what it will cost to defend ourselves
THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF CODES AND CIPHERS HAS PLAYED AN EXCITING AND OFTEN CRUCIAL PART IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Sixteen years before Pearl Harbor an English naval expert uncannily prophesied in detail the war in the Pacific. Now comes evidence that the Japanese heeded his theories—but not his warnings