Misread signals : how history overlooked women codebreakers
Turing, Dermot2025
Book
Bletchley Park was - so we're told - staffed by a majority of women, who had menial roles while a handful of pipe-smoking male boffins did the brainy codebreaking stuff. As with many urban myths, it's not true: women as well as men had serious full-on codebreaking roles. And not just at Bletchley, but in codebreaking agencies in the US and even in Germany. Yet, when the histories were written, the codebreaker women somehow got left out. Who were they? What did they achieve? How come they vanished? What happened to them after the war?
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walkden Library | Adult Non Fiction | 940.548508 TURHardback | On loan - Due: 24 Mar 2026 |
Main title:
Misread signals : how history overlooked women codebreakers / Dermot Turing.
Author:
Turing, Dermot, author
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781803997933 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5485082940.548508
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4067358