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David Kahn (1930-2024) Historian, journalist, author. David Kahn was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in the Bronx, New York.

Full Name

David Kahn

Locations

BronxNassauNew York

Author's Timeline


1930

Birth

New York County: David Kahn was born in Manhattan, New York, on February 7, 1930.

1930

Residence

Nassau County: As a child, Mr. Kahn lived in Great Neck, New York.

1950s - 1960

Other Life Event

Mr. Kahn worked for Newsday in the 1950s until 1960.

1967

Literary Work

The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing
The Macmillan Company
Nonfiction.

1978

Literary Work

Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II
Macmillan
0025606107 / 978-0025606104
Nonfiction.

1980

Literary Work

Codebreaking in World Wars I and II: The Major Successes and Failures, Their Causes and Their Effects
Cambridge University Press
Nonfiction.

1984

Literary Work

Kahn on Codes: Secrets of the New Cryptology
Macmillan Publishing Company
0025606409 / 978-0025606401
Nonfiction.

1991

Literary Work

Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939–1943
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395427398 / 978-0395427392
Nonfiction.

2004

Literary Work

The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Codebreaking
Yale University Press
0300098464 / 978-0300098464
Nonfiction.

2014

Literary Work

How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code
Auerbach Publications
1466561998 / 978-1466561991
Nonfiction.

2024

Death

Bronx County: David Kahn died at a senior living facility in the Bronx, New York, on January 24, 2024.

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