Books like the code book

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptographyis a book by Simon Singh, published in New York in 1999 by Doubleday.

The Code Bookdescribes some illustrative highlights in the history of cryptography, drawn from both of its principal branches, codes and ciphers. Thus the book's title should not be misconstrued as suggesting that the book deals only with codes, and not with ciphers; or that the book is in fact a codebook.

The Code Bookcovers diverse historical topics including the Man in the Iron Mask, Arabic cryptography, Charles Babbage, the mechanisation of cryptography, the Enigma machine, and the decryption of Linear B and other ancient writing systems.