Books – CCH Free PDF link list

The NSA’s Center for Cryptologic History runs various events and special programs, as well as publishing free-to-read historical texts. The website breaks the texts up by subject (Pre-Modern, World War I, World War II, etc.), which can make it a little difficult to find out exactly what everything is.

Pre-Modern:
… Listening to the Rum-runners, David P. Mowry (second ed. 2014)
… The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma, M. E. D’Imperio (1978)
… The Dawn of American Cryptology, 1900-1917, (Special Series Vol. 7), David Hatch (2019)
… Revolutionary Secrets: Cryptology in the American Revolution, Jennifer Wilcox (2012)
… American Cryptology, Two Centuries of Tradition, (No author or date)
… The Cipher Disk (No author or date) (U.S. Army Disk)
… Masked Dispatches: Cryptograms and Cryptology in American History, 1775–1900, Ralph E. Weber (third ed. 2013) (Series I, Volume 1)

WW I:
… From the Ground Up: American Cryptology during World War I, Betsy Rohaly Smoot, (2023) (Series II, Volume 2)
… From the Ground Up: Appendix A: Cryptologists of World War I, Betsy Rohaly Smoot, (2023)
… Issues in British and American Signals Intelligence, 1919-1932, (Special Series Vol. 11), John Ferris (2015)
.. Women Telephone Operators in World War I France, Jill Frahm (2016)

WW II:
… Solving the Enigma: History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe, Jennifer Wilcox, (Reprinted 2015)
… A History of U.S. Communications Intelligence During World War II: Policy and Administration, (Series IV, Volume 8), Robert Louis Benson (1998)
… SIGSALY Story, Patrick D. Weadon (No date)
… How Mathematicians Helped to Win WWII (No author or date)
… Sharing the Burden: Women in Cryptology during World War II, Jennifer Wilcox (1998, reprinted 2013)
… A History of Secure Voice Coding: Insights Drawn from the Career of One of the Earliest Practitioners of the Art of Speech Coding, JOSEPH P. CAMPBELL, JR., and RICHARD A. DEAN (2021, based on article from 1993)
… A Priceless Advantage: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians, (Series IV, Volume 5), Frederick D. Parker (1993, reissued 2017)
… American Signal Intelligence in Northwest Africa and Western Europe (Series IV, Volume 1), George F. Howe (2010)
… The Start of the Digital Revolution: SIGSALY Secure Digital Voice Communications in World War II, (No author or date)
… The Battle of Midway: How Cryptology enabled the United States to turn the tide in the Pacific War, Patrick D. Weadon (No date)
… West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy – A Documentary History, (Series IV, Volume 10), Robert J. Hanyok and David P. Mowry (2008)
… Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (Series IV, Volume 9), Robert J. Hanyok (Second edition 2005)
… Cryptologic Aspects of German Intelligence Activities in South America during World War II (Series IV, Volume 11), David P. Mowry (2011)
… The Cryptographic Mathematics of ENIGMA, Dr. A. Ray Miller (Revised edition 2019)
… The First Americans: The 1941 US Codebreaking Mission to Bletchley Park, (Special Series Volume 12), David Sherman (Second printing 2016)
… Pearl Harbor Revisited: U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence 1924–1941, (Series IV, Volume 6), Frederick D. Parker (Third edition 2013)
… Origins of the Navajo Code Talkers (No author or date)
… The Secret of Adam and Eve, Jennifer Wilcox (No date)
… German Cipher Machines of World War II, David Mowry (Revised edition 2014)
… The Invisible Cryptologists: African-Americans, WWII to 1956, (Series V, Volume 5), Jeannette Williams with Yolande Dickerson, Researcher (2001)

Korean War:
… SIGINT and COMSEC Help Save the Day at Pusan, Patrick D. Weadon (No date)
… SIGINT and COMSEC Help Save the Day at Pusan (Brochure format), Patrick D. Weadon (No date)
… The SIGINT Background, David A. Hatch with Robert Louis Benson (No date)
… So Power Can Be Brought into Play: SIGINT and the Pusan Perimeter, (Series V, Volume 4), Jill Frahm (2000)
… The Korean War: The SIGINT Background, (Series V, Volume 3), David A. Hatch with Robert Louis Benson (2000)
… The Story of PFC Jay Robert Stoner NSA (A Tribute) (No author or date)

Vietnam War:
… Essential Matters with Supplement on Cryptography in the Border Guard, 1959-1989: A History of the Cryptographic Branch of the People’s Army of Viet Nam, 1945-1975, David W. Gaddy (1994, Reprinted 2017)

Cold War:
… NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thomas R. Johnson and David A. Hatch (Reprinted 2014)
… The VENONA Story, Robert L. Benson (No date)
… Staff Sergeant Donald G. Hill, USAF and Airman 2nd Class Earl W. Radlein, USAF (A Tribute) (No author or date)
… CT3 Edward Joseph Purcell, USN (A Tribute) (No author or date)
… Dedication and Sacrifice: National Aerial Reconnaissance in the Cold War (No author or date)
… SILENT WARRIORS: The Naval Security Group Reserve, 1945-2005 (No author or date)
… A DANGEROUS BUSINESS: The U.S. Navy and National Reconnaissance During the Cold War, John R. Schindler (No date)
… Candle in the Dark: COMINT and Soviet Industrial Secrets,1946-1956, (Series VI, Volume 12), Carol B. Davis (2017)
… Learning from the Enemy: The GUNMAN Project, Sharon A. Maneki (First edition published 2012; Second edition 2018)
… Venona: Soviet Espionage and The American Response 1939-1957, (No author or date)

Cryptocomics:
These are generally one-page infotainment comics on a particular person, place or event. Superficial, may not always be fully accurate.
… #01: NSOC (Jan. 2020)
… #02: The Unbreakable Kryha Machine (Feb. 2020)
… #03: The Juanita Moody Story (Mar. 2020)
… #04: Teaching an Old General New Tricks (Apr. 2020)
… #05: Guadalcanal (May 2020)
… #06: Critical Communications (June 2020)
… #07: Beneath the Surface (Aug. 2020)
… #08: A Revolution in Communications (Oct. 2020)
… #09: Civil War Security (Nov. 2020)
… #10: First African-American Cryptologists (No date)
… #11: A Noble Life (No date)
… #12: From the Ambassador (No Date)
… #13: Missing
… #14: America’s First Spy Story (No date)

NSA/CSS:
… NSA Directors: The Selection and Confirmation Process, Trumbull D. Soule (2022)
… A 10th Anniversary Retrospective, Jack E. Ingram, NSA, Curator (No date)
… Women in Mathematics Society, Michelle D. Wagner (No date)
… Tale of the Tape, (No author or date)
… Rare Books: The Rare Book Collection, (No author or date)
… The Quest for Cryptologic Centralization and the Establishment of NSA: 1940 – 1952, (Series V, Volume 6), Thomas L. Burns (2005)
… The Origins of NSA (No author or date)
… Fun Facts About Cryptology, (No author or date)
… The History of Traffic Analysis: World War I – Vietnam, Donald A. Borrmann, William T. Kvetkas, Charles V. Brown, Michael J. Flatley, and Robert Hunt (2013)
… 50th Anniversary Brochure (No author or date)

Personalities:
… “Give to Ferner”: The Untold Story of an American Master Cryptanalyst, (Special Series Volume 14), Brenda J. McIntire (2023)
… The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, (Special Series Volume 10), Kevin Wade Johnson (2015)
… In Memoriam: Dr. Louis Tordella, William P. Crowell, Deputy Director; David A Hatch; Tom Johnson (No date)
… Brigadier John Tiltman: A Giant Among Cryptanalysts, John F. Clabby (2007)
… Listening to the Rumrunners: Radio Intelligence during Prohibition, David P. Mowry (2014)
… ANN’S WAR: One Woman’s Journey to the Codebreaking Victory over Japan, (Special Series Volume 13), David Sherman (2019)
… The Friedman Legacy: A Tribute to William and Elizebeth Friedman, (Sources in Cryptologic History Number 3), Various (Third printing 2006)

Technology:
… Securing Record Communications: The TSEC/KW-26, Melville Klein (No date)
… Telemetry Intelligence (TELINT) During the Cold War, Richard L. Bernard (2016)
… ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE (ELINT) AT NSA, Richard L. Bernard (2009)
… The SIGABA/ECM II Cipher Machine: “A Beautiful Idea”, Timothy Mucklow (2015)
… In the Forefront of Foreign Missile and Space Intelligence: History of the Defense Special Missile and Aerospace Center (DEFSMAC), 1960-2010, Richard L. Bernard (2012)
… Cryptology’s Role in the Early Development of Computer Capabilities in the United States, James V. Boone and James J. Hearn (2015)

Cryptologic Quarterly:
… 2017-03 • Vol. 36