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Chargement... The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies (édition 2017)par Jason Fagone (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies par Jason Fagone
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  TraSea | Apr 29, 2024 |    ) stardustwisdom | Dec 31, 2023 | ) Suem330 | Dec 28, 2023 | I guess it goes along with Elizebeth’s personality to not like the spotlight, but definitely think the title deceives the book’s tone. Doesn’t help I am also reading Lessons in Chemistry, which is about a different badass Elizabeth working in STEM in the 1950s lol. (  ) lavellemt | Dec 27, 2023 | What I liked very much was that the book read like a novel instead of a biography and got me immediately invested in the subject of the Friedmans and cryptography. Also, I have never been much of a WWII history-buff, but I must say that Fagone really got me interested in this part of the history. There were some minor things that I liked less. First Fagone described William Friedman as a brilliant man who batteled with depression, the fact that he then sometimes put him on the page as a whiny, needy little man felt therefore a little... harsch. Another thing is that I really liked Fagones writing style, but sometimes he felt the need to hype it up with "smashing codes" and his superlative awe for the scientific method. These moments just stood out and kept annoying me once every while. This was however one of the most fun biographies I've read so far! (  ) bramboomen | Oct 18, 2023 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: National Bestseller NPR Best Book of the Year "Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." ??The New York Times 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. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the "Adam and Eve" of the NSA, Elizebeth's story, incredibly, has never been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life of this extraordinary woman, who played an integral role in our nation's history for forty years. After World War I, Smith used her talents to catch gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to discover and expose Nazi spy rings that were spreading like wildfire across South America, advancing ever closer to the United States. As World War II raged, Elizebeth fought a highly classified battle of wits against Hitler's Reich, cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine used by German spies. Meanwhile, inside an Army vault in Washington, William worked furiously to break Purple, the Japanese version of Enigma??and eventually succeeded, at a terrible cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America's code-breaking history through the prism of Smith's life, bringing into focus the unforgettable events and colorful personalities that would help shape modern intelligence. Blending the lively pace and compelling detail that are the hallmarks of Erik Larson's bestsellers with the atmosphere and intensity of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is page-turning popular history at its finest Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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(Print: ©9/26/2017; 9780062430489; Dey Street Books; 464 pp.)
(Digital: Yes).
*Audio: ©9/26/2017; 978-0062675583; Duration 13:43:55; 15 parts; unabridged
(Film: No.)
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
I enjoy fiction and non-fiction about the 1930’s and 40’s, and heroic feats during war time.
My father was a cryptologist in WWII, so I found this one particularly interesting. The other interesting aspect of this book, about Elizebeth Smith Friedman (1892-1980), a cryptanalyst mostly active in the 30’s and 40’s, is it describes how the accomplishments of women, particularly in those days, could/can so easily get obscured or lost entirely for so many reasons—such as, because there are others who will happily take credit for accomplishments they can rationalize are theirs for having employed or partnered with a woman; by the women themselves who are happy to give credit away to husbands or any good mentor or partner they honor and admire; recorders of events who deem a woman’s contributions unworthy of mention; and a myriad others. Obscuration was aided in this case, and doubtless many others, by the cloak-and-dagger top-secret confidential nature of much of governmental work.
I got my copy from the Overdrive application in audio format. It announces that there is a print PDF accompaniment but I could not download it to my phone or my computer. It claims it wants another program besides Overdrive to open in but it won’t open in Adobe Reader. Perhaps I am not savvy enough, or perhaps the folks at Overdrive aren’t and they just want me to *think* I had access to the accompaniment when I actually don’t. This suspicion is further substantiated by the fact that the digital edition does not mention or include this. The book makes reference to it frequently when describing codes. Maybe you want to purchase this one through Audible if you get the audio version and have any hopes of viewing this pdf. Or perhaps the hardback edition, although in the Amazon “look inside” feature there’s no mention of a section that shows the codes. It’s a mystery. (