Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II / Liza Mundy.
Publisher: New York : Hachette Books, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316352536 (hardcover)
- 9780316439893 (large print)
- 940.54/86730922 23
- D810.C88 M86 2017
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index.
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.
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