The enigma girls : how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II / Candace Fleming.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Focus, 2024Edition: First editionDescription: 371 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781338749571Subject(s): Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain) -- Juvenile literature | Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain) | Great Britain. Royal Navy. Women's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993) -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Juvenile literature | Enigma cipher system -- Juvenile literature | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature | World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography | Enigma cipher system | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain | Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- History -- Juvenile literature | Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Biographies. Additional physical formats: Online version:: Enigma girlsDDC classification: 940.54/8641 LOC classification: D810.C88 | F54 2024Summary: ""You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. Bletchley Park was a well-kept secret during World War II, operating under the code name Station X. The critical work of code-cracking Nazi missives that went on behind its closed doors could determine a victory or loss against Hitler's army. Amidst the brilliant cryptographers, flamboyant debutantes, and absent-minded professors working there, it was teenaged girls who kept Station X running. Some could do advanced math, while others spoke a second language. They ran the unwieldy bombe machines, made sense of wireless sound waves, and sorted the decoded messages. They were expected to excel in their fields and most importantly: know how to keep a secret"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
""You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. Bletchley Park was a well-kept secret during World War II, operating under the code name Station X. The critical work of code-cracking Nazi missives that went on behind its closed doors could determine a victory or loss against Hitler's army. Amidst the brilliant cryptographers, flamboyant debutantes, and absent-minded professors working there, it was teenaged girls who kept Station X running. Some could do advanced math, while others spoke a second language. They ran the unwieldy bombe machines, made sense of wireless sound waves, and sorted the decoded messages. They were expected to excel in their fields and most importantly: know how to keep a secret"-- Provided by publisher.
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