The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies Hardcover – 26 September 2017

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Author: Jason Fagone
Publisher: Dey Street Books; 1st Edition (26 September 2017)
Edition: Tue Sep 26 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
ISBN-13: 9780062430489
No of pages: 444
Weight: 635g
Language: English
Book binding: Hardcover

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Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II 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. There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman.