Code Girls : the True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II Liza Mundy ; adapted by Laurie Calkhoven.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Edition: Young readers edition; First editionDescription: xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316353731
- Adaptation of: Code girls : the untold story of the American women code breakers in World War II
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literature. -- Cryptography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literature. -- Participation, Female
- Cryptographers -- Juvenile literature. -- History -- 20th century -- United States
- Cryptography. -- Juvenile literature. -- History -- 20th century -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- Cryptographers
- Cryptography
- 940.54/86730922 23
- D810.C88 M862 2018
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Includes filmography and bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
The secret letters -- The most difficult problem -- "I have something to show you" -- Magic -- "It was heart-rending" -- Midway -- The most important secret -- WAVES -- Uncle Sam wants you! -- "Q for communications" -- MacArthur's secret weapon -- "That's it! That's it!" -- A major break -- Twenty-eight acres of girls -- The largest clandestine message center in the world -- "I'm saving it!" -- So many girls -- Operation vengeance -- Sugar Camp -- Breaking shark -- The tables turn -- Pencil-pushing mamas sink Japanese ships -- One sad shoe -- Department K -- "Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine" -- D-Day -- Teedy -- The surrender message -- Peace -- The mitten.
A juvenile adaptation of Mundy's "nonfiction chronicle of the courageous efforts of ... young women recruited by the US government to crack German and Japanese military codes during World War II"--Provided by publisher.
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