Decoding the Ira - Brossura

Mahon, Tom; Gillogly, James J.

 
9781856356046: Decoding the Ira
Brossura
ISBN 10: 1856356043 ISBN 13: 9781856356046
Casa editrice: Mercier Pr Ltd, 2008

Sinossi

Historian Tom Mahon and code breaker James J. Gillogly have spent the past few years breaking the IRA's communications code. The code was used for the organisation's most secret messages. The newly decoded secret documents reveal the IRA's mindset in the years following the civil war and the results are explosive as they expose IRA secrets that have been concealed for over 75 years.
Featuring facsimilies of the actual coded documents, the book delves into nearly every matter conceivable for a paramilitary organisation, ranging from the importation of explosives to the use of IRA informants in the gardai. Documents detail the IRA's secret agreement with the Soviet Union and its attempts to provide military assistance to China; military espionage in America; plans to stage a gas attack on Dublin; the IRA's infiltration of the GAA and control of the Kerry football team and the struggle with Eamon de Valera and Fianna Fail. The book provides an unnerving insight into how the IRA saw itself and conducted its dangerous business in secrecy.

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L'autore

Tom Mahon is originally from Dublin, though his grandfather was Tom Crofts from Cork, a well know IRA and Fianna Fail personality of his time. Tom graduated from UCD as a medical doctor in 1983, becoming a Fellow of Royal College of Radiologists in 1988 and in 1993 a member of the American Board of Radiology. He is a consultant radiologist in Hawaii, where he lives with his wife and 10 year old son Tommy. He has been researching the IRA for a number of years at archives throughout Ireland. He started working on these documents in the autumn of 2004 before making contact with Jim early in 2005. One of the foremost crytologists in the USA, Jim Gillogly has had a long history with both computers and cryptology. He has worked at RAND, gained a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and cracked some of the world's most mysterious codes.

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Editore
Mercier Pr Ltd
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1856356043
ISBN 13 
9781856356046
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
348
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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