New York: Free Press, 2000. First Printing. 436, illus., maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index, slight sticker residue to DJ. More

New York, N.Y. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xvi, 422, [6] pages. Includes listing of eight black and white Maps and Diagrams, Prologue, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also contains 11 pages of color images of ships, American captains, and British admirals. Stephen Budiansky is an American writer, historian, and biographer. He is also the author of a number of scholarly publications about the history of cryptography, military and intelligence history. Budiansky joined the staff of the science journal Nature as Washington correspondent and later served as its Washington editor. In 1985–86 he was a Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where he co-authored a study of advanced conventional weapons technologies as a means for reducing NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence. In 1986 Budiansky joined the staff of U.S. News & World Report, where he worked for twelve years in a variety of writing and editing positions, covering science and national security issues. He ultimately served as the magazine's deputy editor, the No. 3 editorial position. Since 1998 Budiansky has been a full-time author and free-lance contributor to publications including the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Economist. His writing has focused on intellectual biography and military history. From 2007 to 2008 he was the editor of World War II magazine, where he oversaw a complete redesign and brought in well-known writers and historians to contribute to the publication. He is also a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, the scholarly journal of codes and codebreaking. More