Stephen Budiansky: 8 books
Code Warriors
NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades
The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes,...
by Stephen Budiansky
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy.
Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive and...
Air Power
The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane...
Mad Music
Charles Ives, the Nostalgic Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Mad Music is the story of Charles Edward Ives (1874–1954), the innovative American composer who achieved international recognition, but only after he’d stopped making music. While many of his best works received little attention in his lifetime, Ives is now appreciated as perhaps the most important...
The Bloody Shirt
Terror After the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2008
A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era
Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand...
by Stephen Budiansky
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The extraordinary story of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most influential justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived...
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of...
Blackett's War
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A Washington Post Notable Book
In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone...