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050 0 0 _aD810.C88
_bF54 2024
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_223/eng/20230825
100 1 _aFleming, Candace,
_eauthor.
_916214
245 1 4 _aThe enigma girls :
_bhow ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II /
_cCandace Fleming.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bScholastic Focus,
_c2024.
300 _a371 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-350) and index.
520 _a""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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
521 _aAges 7-11
_bScholastic Inc.
521 _aGrades 4-6
_bScholastic Inc.
610 2 0 _aGovernment Code and Cypher School (Great Britain)
_vJuvenile literature.
_916215
610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bRoyal Navy.
_bWomen's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993)
_vBiography
_vJuvenile literature.
_916216
610 2 1 _aGovernment Code and Cypher School (Great Britain)
_916217
610 1 1 _aGreat Britain.
_bRoyal Navy.
_bWomen's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993)
_vBiography.
_916218
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCryptography
_vJuvenile literature.
_916219
650 0 _aEnigma cipher system
_vJuvenile literature.
_916220
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMilitary intelligence
_zGreat Britain
_vJuvenile literature.
_916221
650 1 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCryptography.
_916222
650 1 _aEnigma cipher system.
_916223
650 1 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMilitary intelligence
_zGreat Britain.
_916224
651 0 _aBletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
_xHistory
_vJuvenile literature.
_916225
651 1 _aBletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
_xHistory.
_916226
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft
_95221
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aFleming, Candace.
_tEnigma girls
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Scholastic Focus, 2024
_z9781338749588
_w(DLC) 2023036020.
907 _a.b188816392
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
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_d29419