Code girls the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II
Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies" -- Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed" -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- "This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it" -- The most difficult problem -- "So many girls...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, Boston
Hachette Books
October 2017
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies" -- Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed" -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- "This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it" -- The most difficult problem -- "So many girls in one place" -- Part II. "Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme" -- "It was heart-rending" -- "Q for communications" -- The forlorn shoe -- "Hell's half-acre" -- "It was only human to complain" -- Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan -- Part III. The tide turns -- Sugar camp -- "All my love, Jim" -- "Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine" -- Teedy -- The surrender message -- Good-bye to Crow -- Epilogue: The mitten |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-402) and index |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 416 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780316352536 978-0-316-35253-6 9780316439893 978-0-316-43989-3 |