Code girls : the true story of the American women who secretly broke codes in World War II / Liza Mundy.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2018]Description: xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316353731
- 0316353736
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female -- Juvenile literature
- Cryptographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Cryptography -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Cryptographers
- Cryptography
- Military participation -- Female
- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- Cryptographers
- Cryptography
- Cryptography -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Cryptographers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female -- Juvenile literature
- 1900-1999
- 940.54/867309252 23
- D810.C88 M862 2018
- 940.54857 MUN
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Wasatch County Library Second Floor | Young Adult NonFiction | YA 940.54 Mun (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34301002057539 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the secret letters -- The most difficult problem -- "I have something to show you" -- Magic -- "It was heart-rending" -- Midway -- The most important secret -- WAVES -- Uncle Sam wants you! -- "Q for communications" -- MacArthur's secret weapon -- "That's it! that's it!" -- A major break -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- The largest clandestine message center in the world -- "I'm saving it!" -- So many girls -- Operation vengeance -- Sugar Camp -- Breaking shark -- The tables turn -- Pencil-pushing mamas sink Japanese ships -- One sad shoe -- Department K -- "Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine" -- D-day -- Teedy -- The surrender message -- Peace -- Epilogue: the mitten.
"A nonfiction chronicle of the courageous efforts of remarkable young women recruited by the US government to crack German and Japanese military codes during World War II."--Provided by publisher.
junior nonfiction junior library guild