Code girls: the untold story of the American women code breakers of World War II

The secret letters

Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies"

Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed"

Twenty-eight acres of girls

"This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it"

The most difficult problem

"So many girls in one place"

Part II. "Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme"

"It was heart-rending"

"Q for communications"

The forlorn shoe

"Hell's half-acre"

"It was only human to complain"

Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan

Part III. The tide turns

Sugar camp

"All my love, Jim"

"Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine"

Teedy

The surrender message

Good-bye to Crow

Epilogue: The mitten.

The secret letters ; Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies". Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed". Twenty-eight acres of girls ; "This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it" ; The most difficult problem ; "So many girls in one place"

Part II. "Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme". "It was heart-rending" ; "Q for communications" ; The forlorn shoe ; "Hell's half-acre" ; "It was only human to complain" ; Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan

Part III. The tide turns. Sugar camp ; "All my love, Jim" ; "Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine" ; Teedy ; The surrender message ; Good-bye to Crow

Epilogue: The mitten

Afterword for the paperback edition

Reading group guide.

The secret letters

Introduction: "Your country needs you, young ladies"

Part I. "In the event of total war women will be needed"

Twenty-eight acres of girls

"This is a man's size job, but I seem to be getting away with it"

The most difficult problem

"So many girls in one place"

Part II. "Over all this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme"

"It was heart-rending"

"Q for communications"

The forlorn shoe

"Hell's half-acre"

"It was only human to complain"

Pencil-pushing mamas sink the shipping of Japan

Part III. The tide turns

Sugar camp

"All my love, Jim"

"Enemy landing at the mouth of the Seine"

Teedy

The surrender message

Good-bye to Crow

Epilogue: The mitten.