Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II / Liza Mundy.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2017Copyright date: �2017Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316352536
- 0316352535
- 940.54/86730922 23
- D810.C88 M86 2017
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940.54 LEV C.2 SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ | 940.54 LIT THE MEDIC | 940.54 MAT Camp II, block 211; daily life in an internment camp. / | 940.54 MUN Code girls : | 940.54 NIT RECOVERED LAND | 940.54 NOB JUDGMENT AT THE SMITHSONIAN | 940.54 OVE THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-402) and index.
The secret letters -- Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies" -- Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed" -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- "This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it" -- The most difficult problem -- "So many girls in one place" -- Part II. "Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme" -- "It was heart-rending" -- "Q for communications" -- The forlorn shoe -- "Hell's half-acre" -- "It was only human to complain" -- Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan -- Part III. The tide turns -- Sugar camp -- "All my love, Jim" -- "Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine" -- Teedy -- The surrender message -- Good-bye to Crow -- Epilogue: The mitten.
Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
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