The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (Hardcover)

from jody

read book on NOOK and bought this for my Grand who is studying this at collage. delivery was very good... pleased that it only took few days... and right to my door by FedX

from debann6354

Listened to the audiobook. Fascinating book about Elizabeth Smith Friedman, an accomplished cryptanalyst prior to WWI to after WWII. She eventually married William Friedman, also a cryptanalyst. Initially they worked together but eventually their work life separated. In the end William was honore...

from UpstateNYbuyer

Like "Hidden Figures," this is a great true story about a currently "forgotten," but technically brilliant woman whose talent was "mission-critical" to the United States. Her pattern-finding genius helped take down criminal organizations and German spy rings. Much of her "thunder" was stolen by J...

from nyiper

This is a fantastic book to absorb----how one woman played such an incredible part of the history of this country and yet, because of the status of women, remained virtually unknown beside her husband, another but more recognized part of code history. It is truly incredible to try and understand ...

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Elizebeth Friedman was someone I had never heard of until I read this book. I have learned so much about the codebreaking that went on not only during 2 world wars but also during the 20s and 30s with smuggling. I also learned some things about WW II that I did not know. This is a well-written bo...