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100 1 _aFleming, Candace,
_eauthor.
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245 1 4 _aThe Enigma girls :
_bhow ten teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II /
_cCandace Fleming
246 3 _aHow 10 teenagers broke ciphers, kept secrets, and helped win World War II
250 _aFirst edition
300 _a371 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
490 1 _aTrue stories in focus
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aIntroduction -- 1939-1945: War and Y -- 1940: Secrets, secrets, and more secrets -- 1941: Ciphers, spies, and a mysterious summons -- 1942: Bombes and codebooks -- 1943: Slogging, grinding war work -- 1944: D-Day and its secret helpers -- 1945: War's end and the years after
520 _a"You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time ... That is all you need to know." This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke--these young people had no idea what kind of work they were stepping into. Who had recommended them? Why had they been chosen? Most would never learn all the answers to these questions. Bletchley Park was a well-kept secret during World War II, operating under the code name Station X. The critical work of code-cracking Nazi missives that went on behind its closed doors could determine a victory or loss against Hitler's army. Amidst the brilliant cryptographers, flamboyant debutantes, and absent-minded professors working there, it was teenaged girls who kept Station X running. Some could do advanced math, while others spoke a second language. They ran the unwieldy bombe machines, made sense of wireless sound waves, and sorted the decoded messages. They were expected to excel in their fields and most importantly: know how to keep a secret"--
521 1 _aAges: 8-12
_bScholastic Inc
521 2 _aGrades: 3-7
_bScholastic Inc
521 _aReading L: 6.6
_bScholastic Inc
610 2 0 _aGovernment Code and Cypher School (Great Britain)
_vJuvenile literature
610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bRoyal Navy.
_bWomen's Royal Naval Service (1939-1993)
_vBiography
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xCryptography
_vJuvenile literature
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650 0 _aEnigma cipher system
_vJuvenile literature
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xMilitary intelligence
_zGreat Britain
_vJuvenile literature
651 0 _aBletchley Park (Milton Keynes, England)
_xHistory
_vJuvenile literature
655 0 _aBiographies
655 0 _aCreative nonfiction
830 0 _aTrue stories in focus
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