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Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII - True Stories of Female Code Breakers Whose Top-Secret Work Helped Win WWII

Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII - True Stories of Female Code Breakers Whose Top-Secret Work Helped Win WWII

Baker, Elise

Paperback

Series: Brave Women Who Changed the Course of WWII, Book 2

General World History

ISBN13: 9798215825143
Publisher: Elise Baker
Published: Feb 27 2023
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man's world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women did much more during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied effort. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process.

Bringing to light the quiet heroism of female code breakers of WWII is an opportunity to showcase the exceptional women who saved lives and changed the tide of the greatest war in human history.

The life of a female codebreaker was not a simple one. Even as they applied themselves to complicated counterintelligence work and labored daily alongside their male colleagues, they fought an uphill battle on many different fronts inside and outside the office.

Despite the constant need to prove themselves and justify their life choices to men and women alike, these brilliant women never thought of themselves as heroes, but rather as citizens performing their duty, in common with the pragmatic attitudes that many people held during the war.

As such, their stories and accomplishments have remained firmly under the radar-often missing from official documentation, history books, public lore, and therefore general public awareness.

The British feat of breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park has been celebrated in popular culture in various books and movies, but the stories of many women who worked to break codes in the complex world of cryptography remain relatively untold.

Inside Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII you'll learn the true stories of female code breakers whose top-secret work helped win World War II, including:

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