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The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies

Fagone, Jason,

The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies - First edition. - xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-427) and index.

Traces the life of Elizebeth Smith, who met and married groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman and worked with him to discover and expose Nazi spy rings in South America by cracking multiple versions of the Enigma machine.

9780062430489 0062430483

bl2017026381


Friedman, Elizebeth, 1892-1980.


Cryptographers--United States--Biography.
Cryptography--History.--United States

Z103.4.U6 / F34 2017

652/.8092 B