Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

[juan]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:24:47 -0500
John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> CODE GIRLS

	code cunts - more cogs in american nazi war 'effort'.



> The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
> By Liza Mundy

	
	yep - list needed some more feminazi propaganda 




> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/books/review/liza-mundy-code-girls-world-war-ii.html
> 
> Describes the experiences of several thousand 
> American women who spent the war years in 
> Washington, untangling the clandestine messages 
> sent by the Japanese and German militaries and 
> diplomatic corps. At a time when even 
> well-educated women were not encouraged to have 
> careers ­ much less compete with men to 
> demonstrate their mastery of arcane, technical 
> skills ­ this hiring frenzy represented a 
> dramatic shift. The same social experiment was 
> simultaneously unfolding on the other side of the 
> Atlantic. The British debutantes and their 
> middle-class peers recruited to work at the 
> secret Bletchley Park code-breaking operation came to outnumber the
> men.
> 
> Mundy’s narrative turns thrilling as she 
> chronicles the eureka moments when the women 
> succeed in cracking codes, relying on a mixture 
> of mathematical expertise, memorization and occasional leaps of
> intuition. ...
> 
> At the end of the war, virtually all of the 
> female code breakers were given their walking 
> papers and returned to civilian life. Only a few 
> superstars were asked to stay on (among them Ann 
> Caracristi, who went on to become the first 
> female deputy director of the National Security Agency).
> 
> For these accomplished and resourceful women, who 
> had been given a heady taste of professional 
> success, it was jarring to have to fight to be 
> accepted to top graduate programs on the G.I. 
> Bill or embark on traditional paths as wives and 
> mothers. Warned not to reveal their secret 
> wartime lives, many remained silent about their 
> valuable service. Thanks to Mundy’s book, which 
> deftly conveys both the puzzle-solving 
> complexities and the emotion and drama of this era, their stories
> will live on.
> 
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