Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

Code Girls is the true story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese military codes during World War II. More than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II, recruited by the US Army and Navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top secret art of code breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. [author]