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The woman who smashed codes
The woman who smashed codes











the woman who smashed codes

There she met the man who would become her husband, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. 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. 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. "Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." -The New York Times Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.

the woman who smashed codes

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The woman who smashed codes