TY - BOOK AU - Fleming,Candace TI - The enigma girls: how ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II SN - 9781338749571 AV - D810.C88 F54 2024 U1 - 940.54/8641 23/eng/20230825 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic Focus KW - Government Code and Cypher School (Great Britain) KW - Juvenile literature KW - Great Britain KW - Royal Navy KW - Women's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993) KW - Biography KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Cryptography KW - Enigma cipher system KW - Military intelligence KW - Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England) KW - History KW - Biographies KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index; Ages 7-11; Scholastic Inc; Grades 4-6; Scholastic Inc N2 - ""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"-- ER -