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"Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man's world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women did much more during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Even beyond nursing and manufacturing, women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied effort. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process. 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 By knowing the names and faces of the heroic women codebreakers of WWII, we are finally allowing their lives and accomplishments to shine. If you are looking for a unique perspective of wartime history then Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII is a great place to start!"

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"""This book looks closely at some of the women who were omitted from the history books we all know. If you are interested in World War 2 and the people who played a major part in it then you have to read this book. It gives back to the women who happily kept silent about their covert roles in code-breaking and are only now just being recognized for their contribution to the war effort."" ""Really interesting to read the true stories of some of the amazing people who helped change history and turn the tide in WW2. The fact that they were women is an added point of interest, but I always enjoy these types of books because they showcase how crucial these often faceless, nameless people were to the eventual outcome of the war, and how perilously close we came to defeat."" ""My favorite part of the book is the Australian code breaking operation of the war, because of the fantastic character Mrs Mac. Florence Violet McKenzie who trained her own army of young women to teach Morse Code and signals intelligence to the US and Australian armed services, without ever being paid, while putting up with constant derision and patronizing attitudes from the men in power."" ""'Women Code Breakers' shines a light on the remarkable and often overlooked contributions of women in the world of code breaking. It explores the stories of these brilliant women who played pivotal roles in history, breaking codes and barriers. Readers will find this book educational and inspirational."" ""If you are fascinated both by cryptography in general and the stories of unheralded women in history, this book about the brilliant women codebreakers of WWII is a good intro to the field. Their achievements were astounding as was their outrageous lack of acknowledgement even as they broke codes that had been deemed impossible."" ""A big fan of women in history books, am so glad I came across this fascinating read. There are far too many women who have been left out of history books. Has been great learning about women such as Elizebeth Friedman the first American female cryptanalyst. Joan Clarke the ingenious codebreaker during WWII who saved countless lives. Mavis Batey who had a natural recognition of patterns creating meaning where others only saw only the random or the absurd."""

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