nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man's world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women did much more during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied effort. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process.Bringing to light the quiet heroism of female code breakers of WWII is an opportunity to showcase the exceptional women who saved lives and changed the tide of the greatest war in human history.The life of a female codebreaker was not a simple one. Even as they applied themselves to complicated counterintelligence work and labored daily alongside their male colleagues, they fought an uphill battle on many different fronts inside and outside the office.Despite the constant need to 'prove' themselves and justify their life choices to men and women alike, these brilliant women never thought of themselves as heroes, but rather as citizens performing their duty, in common with the pragmatic attitudes that many people held during the war.As such, their stories and accomplishments have remained firmly under the radar-often missing from official documentation, history books, public lore, and therefore general public awareness.The British feat of breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park has been celebrated in popular culture in various books and movies, but the stories of many women who worked to break codes in the complex world of cryptography remain relatively untold.Inside Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII you'll learn the true stories of female code breakers whose top-secret work helped win World War II, including:the stories of Elizebeth Friedman, Joan Clarke, Violet McKenzie, and many other great minds working for the Allied forces from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia-all of whom were trailblazers in the field of cryptographya simple rundown on cryptography as a science, the history of its use, and what it took to break wartime codesthe legacies of these exceptional women, and the impacts their work had both on the war effort and in the years afterthe social constraints and sexist attitudes that women faced, even as they worked on highly classified projectsBy knowing the names and faces of the heroic women codebreakers of WWII, we are finally allowing their lives and accomplishments to shine. If you are looking for a unique perspective of wartime history then Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII is a great place to start!

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T�tulo: Women Code Breakers : The Best Kept Secret of WWII - True Stories of Female Code Breakers Whose Top-Secret Work Helped Win WWII
Editor: Elise Baker
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2023
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 13: 9798215825143
Encuadernaci�n: Taschenbuch
Estado: Neu
Dimensiones: 203�mil�metros de ancho por 127 de alto por 10 de largo
Peso: 192 gramos

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Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man’s world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women did much more during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied effort. They helped shorten the length of the war, saving countless lives in the process.Bringing to light the quiet heroism of female code breakers of WWII is an opportunity to showcase the exceptional women who saved lives and changed the tide of the greatest war in human history.The life of a female codebreaker was not a simple one. Even as they applied themselves to complicated counterintelligence work and labored daily alongside their male colleagues, they fought an uphill battle on many different fronts inside and outside the office.Despite the constant need to "prove" themselves and justify their life choices to men and women alike, these brilliant women never thought of themselves as heroes, but rather as citizens performing their duty, in common with the pragmatic attitudes that many people held during the war.As such, their stories and accomplishments have remained firmly under the radar-often missing from official documentation, history books, public lore, and therefore general public awareness.The British feat of breaking the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park has been celebrated in popular culture in various books and movies, but the stories of many women who worked to break codes in the complex world of cryptography remain relatively untold.Inside Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII you’ll learn the true stories of female code breakers whose top-secret work helped win World War II, including:the stories of Elizebeth Friedman, Joan Clarke, Violet McKenzie, and many other great minds working for the Allied forces from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia-all of whom were trailblazers in the field of cryptographya simple rundown on cryptography as a science, the history of its use, and what it took to break wartime codesthe legacies of these exceptional women, and the impacts their work had both on the war effort and in the years afterthe social constraints and sexist attitudes that women faced, even as they worked on highly classified projectsBy knowing the names and faces of the heroic women codebreakers of WWII, we are finally allowing their lives and accomplishments to shine. If you are looking for a unique perspective of wartime history then Women Code Breakers: The Best Kept Secret of WWII is a great place to start!

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