Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII: True Stories of Female Code Breakers Whose Top-Secret Work Helped Win World War II (Brave Women Who Changed the Course of WWII)
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2022
Series: Book 2 of 4 - Brave Women Who Changed the Course of WWII
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- Title
- Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII: True Stories of Female Code Breakers Whose Top-Secret Work Helped Win World War II (Brave Women Who Changed the Course of WWII)
- Author
- Baker, Elise
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798839993389
- Item weight
- 190 grams
- Series
- Book 2 of 4: Brave Women Who Changed the Course of WWII
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.
Many of the men who served in the war have been made heroes through the documentation of and telling and retelling of their daring exploits. Not so the unsung women heroes of WWII.
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:
- the stories of Elizebeth Friedman, Joan Clarke, Coral Hinds, and many other great minds working for the Allied forces from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia—all of whom were trailblazers in the field of cryptography
- a simple rundown on cryptography as a science, the history of its use, and what it took to break wartime codes
- the legacies of these exceptional women, and the impacts their work had both on the war effort and in the years after
- the social constraints and sexist attitudes that women faced, even as they worked on highly classified projects
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