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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Liza Mundy
3.96 AVERAGE
760 reviews for:
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II
Liza Mundy
3.96 AVERAGE
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Fascinating memoir that gave interesting details about the American code breakers. Everyone knows about Bletchly Park, but the American effort is overlooked.
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An interesting sliver of WW2 history. This read is well-written and throughly researched. It’s difficult to read as a modern day woman the landslide of misogyny and anti-woman rhetoric and prosthesis women faced every day as they successfully aided the war efforts. I wish the book had focused more on these women and their specific contributions. There’s a lot of extra WW2 history and references to the men also worked in this area. I felt like that took away from the impact of how these women changed the war efforts as well as their impact on changing society’s expectations of women. Overall, it a good read though!
I learned so much reading this book. I love cryptography and learning more about it and this book goes further both about codes and ciphers but also the culture around the field and how it developed. It was fascinating.
I liked it overall. I liked learning about the women and what they did, but I felt the author peppered in ALL of the details she learned from each woman. I couldn’t keep track of all the women. I wish it was more of a narrative for just a few women rather than all the info for all the women. Still, very fascinating read.
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3.5 - interesting to learn about code breaking and personally to hear the snapshots about what life in DMV was like for young working women during this time. But some of the rhetoric seemed propaganda-y
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Generally speaking, I don't like non-fiction history books because "history is written by the winners". This book is focused exclusively on the US contributions to code breaking during WWII only mentioning British work in the passing. However, the story of young women from all walks of life joining the Army and the Navy to help the war effort is informative and inspiring. I wish the book didn't jump quite as much between names, places, and dates - I found it difficult to keep up.