The Enigma Girls ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candance Fleming 

I think the long ass title pretty much summed it up.

From the Author

10 young women (most were 18 years old) who left their homes to work secretly on projects related to the German military's Enigma cipher machine.

Genre: NonFiction, History, WWII, YA

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One reviewer said:

"Although targeted to preteen/teen readers, I thought this was a brilliant account of Bletchley Park. I've read several accounts of the goings on at Bletchley and the secret service of Britain during WWII, but in many ways this surpasses them.
Fleming dug deep, explains in detail what these young women were doing, including examples and diagrams, add to that the plethora of pictures of the complex, this is a comprehensive and entertaining look at history."

Genre: Non Fiction, History, WWII
Circa: 1940

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Obviously no plethora of pictures for me with the audio version. 

I was kind of surprised it is YA. This is the one someone in the book club told me about. I hadn't looked up the genre, she only told me it was non-fiction which is what her grandma likes. 

These teens worked in secrecy at Bletchley Park, deciphering enemy messages. They would break the code by finding patterns in messages and guessing clues. Clues would start when they would crack a common phase "begin message here". Then the next day they'd have to start all over because the codes changed daily. 

I thought it was fascinating.

🎧Moira Quirk

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