The Woman Who Smashed Codes
Book description
Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles…
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1 author picked The Woman Who Smashed Codes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It is so much like my book: A woman who uses her talent to save others at great personal cost to herself.
Smith used her talents to overcome crime bosses and smugglers, then transferred her skills to fight Nazis in the war. She acted in secret to outwit Hitler. The concept is riveting and in parallel to my own story of a woman who uses her particular skills to outwit others.
She didn’t do anything so noble as to save the world from Naziism, but she saved her family, gave her husband his life back, and had a great time…
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