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001 2017020069
003 DLC
005 20190729110906.0
008 170428s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2017020069
020 _a9780316352536 (hardcover)
020 _a9780316439893 (large print)
020 _z9781478922704 (audio book)
020 _z9781478922711 (audio download)
020 _z9780316352550 (ebook)
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043 _an-us---
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
_dMvI
050 0 0 _aD810.C88
_bM86 2017
082 0 0 _a940.54/86730922
_223
100 1 _aMundy, Liza,
_d1960-
245 1 0 _aCode girls :
_bthe untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II /
_cLiza Mundy.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHachette Books,
_c[2017]
300 _axiv, 416 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: "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.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCryptography.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xParticipation, Female.
650 0 _aCryptographers
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCryptography
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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949 _aD810 .C88 M86 2017
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