The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies / Jason Fagone.
In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking...
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New York, NY :
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Dey Street books paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note: Prying eyes
- Part I: Riverbank. Fabyan ; Unbelievable, yet it was there ; Bacon's ghost ; He who fears is half dead ;The escape plot
- Part II: Target practice
- Part III: The invisible war. Grandmother died ; Magic ;The Hauptsturmführer and the Funkmeister ; Circuit 3-N ;The doll lady ; Hitler's lair
- Epilogue: Girl cryptanalyst and all that.