women did most of the work…

Book review:

Code Girls:

The Untold Story

of the American Women Code Breakers

of World War II

by Liza Mundy

New York: Hachette Books, 2017

416 pages

It’s a fascinating and inspiring story about World War II.

Incredibly talented code breakers—most of them women—significantly helped to win the war by breaking German, Japanese, Italian, and many other wartime codes, and supplying urgently timely information to Allied forces, and significantly helping to save Allied lives.

No one knows how many Allied fighting men and women, and civilians, survived the war because of the “code girls.”

Code Girls has enough about the esoterica of code breaking to satisfy the most knowledgeable fan, but not so much that it will stupefy a typical reader of history.

For my taste, Mundy tells a bit too much of the untold story. After I got into the book, I started to feel like I didn’t need to know any more about bunches of “code girls” sharing a bathroom in a crowded wartime boarding house in Washington, D.C.

p.s. I’m searching for a book about the code breakers on the other side.

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