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First published in 2001, This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon’s army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army, during the Peninsular War, used a code of unrivalled complexity – the “Great Paris Cipher”. Major George Scovell used a network of Spanish guerillas to capture coded French messages, and then set to work decrypting them.