"In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis."
This nonfiction book reads like fiction, which is something I think makes for the best nonfiction. The author does a great job of bringing together a lot of information, but never losing sight of the fact that the focus is on the more than 10,000 women who served as codebreakers during World War II. The meticulous job of codebreaking is explained fully (although I never found it boring), so you really get a sense of what their work was like. This is a riveting part of U.S. history and I felt like the author's combination of research along with personal interviews with surviving code girls make this an important and fascinating read. I didn't really know very much about women's roles in codebreaking before reading this book ---- which is a shame, considering how many books have been written about World War II. Really a great book!
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