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Enigma Girls, The: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II
Candace Fleming
Ages: 9+
Published: 2024
Publisher: Scholastic Focus/Scholastic
ISBN: 978-1-338-74957-1
Keywords: History-World War, 1939-1945, cryptography, Enigma cipher system, Bletchley Park
The riveting individual stories of young women recruited to help crack the Nazis' coded messages along with detailed explanations of how they did it. Numerous archival photographs. Exemplary sourcing.