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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Cryptography offices often hired women because of the job’s relentlessly grueling daily demands.
Chapter 3: Trailblazing women codebreakers helped lay the groundwork for the early pre–WWII U.S. cryptanalytic corps.
Chapter 4: Army and Navy vied to recruit women codebreakers from elite colleges and from small towns nationwide.
Chapter 5: The lives of the g-girls signaled a societal shift for women.
Chapter 6: A civilian Army codebreaker, Genevieve Grotjan, played a crucial role in breaking Japan’s Purple machine during WWII.
Chapter 7: Working together, g-girls at Arlington Hall helped sink many Japanese ships.
Chapter 8: Code girls broke and crafted codes supporting the D-Day landing in Normandy’s success.
Chapter 9: G-girls witnessed both the war’s horrors and its hard-won victories firsthand, up close.
Chapter 10: After the war, secrecy and sexism left code girls with mixed career paths ahead.
Description
Code Girls (2017) is about the thousands of American women who worked as code breakers during World War II. Informed by interviews with over 20 surviving women, archived documents, and recently declassified oral histories, author Liza Mundy details the unprecedented lives of female code breakers in Washington, DC and beyond as well as the American intelligence that led to the success of the Allied war efforts.
Who Should Listen
- History buffs
- Espionage enthusiasts interested in the history of cryptography
- Students of science or gender studies