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Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers who helped win World War II / Liza Mundy.

Mundy, Liza, 1960- (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316352536
  • Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Your country needs you, young ladies -- 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 -- Over all this vast expanse of water Japan was supreme. It was heart-rending ; Q for communications ; The forlorn shoe ; Hell's half-acre ; It's only human to complain ; Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan -- The tide turns. Sugar camp ; All my love, Jim ; Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine ; Teedy ; The missionary and the surrender message ; The train platform.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female.
Cryptographers > United States > History > 20th century.
Cryptography > United States > History > 20th century.

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