Review: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

Title: Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Author: Liza Mundy
Publisher: Hachette
Publication Date: October 10, 2017
Edition: ebook (432 pages)
Genres:

• Nonfiction
• History
• World War II

My Rating: 4 of 5 stars

Liza Mundy breaks the years of secrecy and silence about the women code breakers of World War II. Relatively little has been written about their contribution to the war effort, until now. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US military realized the vital nature of intercepting coded radio messages broadcast by our enemies. Because men were engaged, mostly fighting away from the home front, the US Army and Navy recruited women into their code breaking operations. These women became vital to the war effort.

This book fascinated me from beginning to end. Many of these women came alive in its pages, and the book also provides a great overview of how WWII played out here in the States as well as abroad. There's even some romance for the romance reader. A great contribution to history.