Comparing and contrasting is differing between two of something as well as the similarities. Contrasting is telling the differences between something. Comparing is telling the similarities. The Dark Game is about Elizabeth Van Lew, an aristocrat whose hatred of slavery drove her to be one of the most successful spies in the Civil War; the Choctaw code talkers, who are Native Americans. The Code Book describes some illustrative highlights in the history of cryptography, drawn from both of its principal branches, codes and ciphers. The both explore code breaking and use historical examples.

The Code Book is more scientific than The Dark Game because it is written differently. The Code Book tells you more about why things go the way they do and how it is easier now a days to get hacked because of the internet. While with The Dark Game it is more about the events that took place and about the spying events. The Dark Game talk about more historical people that The Code Book. …show more content…
In The Code Book it gives the example of, "In 1991 the assassins who killed Shahpour Bakhtiar, the exiled former Iranian prime minister, were caught thanks to the interception and backdoor decipherment of Iranian messages encrypted using Crypto AG equipment." As well as, "In 1998, a report by Wayne Madsen revealed that the Swiss cryptographic company Crypto AG had built backdoors into some of its products, and had provided the U.S. Government with details of how to exploit these backdoors. As a result, America was able to read the communications of several countries." In The Dark Game they use, "When the first shot of the Civil War was fired at four thirty in the morning on April 12, 1861, many believed that it would be a short conflict. Even though Fort Sumter had to endure thirty-four hours of Confederate bombardment before the Union surrendered it, the Union enjoyed a number of significant advantages over the