Overview
Provides a timely addition to scholarship in the area, at the approach of the 100th anniversary of American participation in WWI
Presents many interesting stories on the work of MI-8 on the home front, on the AEF in France, and on the cryptographic work of G2.A6
Describes a fascinating set of characters and tales from the history of German spies and sabotage in the US during the war
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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German Spies in America, 1914–1918
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About this book
When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it was woefully unprepared to wage a modern war. Whereas their European counterparts already had three years of experience in using code and cipher systems in the war, American cryptologists had to help in the building of a military intelligence unit from scratch. This book relates the personal experiences of one such character, providing a uniquely American perspective on the Great War. It is a story of spies, coded letters, plots to blow up ships and munitions plants, secret inks, arms smuggling, treason, and desperate battlefield messages. Yet it all begins with a college English professor and Chaucer scholar named John Mathews Manly.
In 1927, John Manly wrote a series of articles on his service in the Code and Cipher Section (MI-8) of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) during World War I. Published here for the first time, enhanced with references and annotations for additional context, these articles form the basis of an exciting exploration of American military intelligence and counter-espionage in 1917-1918. Illustrating the thoughts of prisoners of war, draftees, German spies, and ordinary Americans with secrets to hide, the messages deciphered by Manly provide a fascinating insight into the state of mind of a nation at war.
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Book Title: Codes, Ciphers and Spies
Book Subtitle: Tales of Military Intelligence in World War I
Authors: John F. Dooley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29415-5
Publisher: Copernicus Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29414-8Published: 08 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29415-5Published: 31 March 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 280
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Data Structures and Information Theory, Popular Science, general