The Enigma Girls

By Candace Fleming,

Book cover of The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

Book description

From award-winning author Candace
Fleming, comes the powerful and fascinating story of the brave
and dedicated young women who helped turn the tides of World
War II for the Allies, with their hard work and determination at
Bletchley Park.
"You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire,…

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 Today, I’m told to ask a teen—or younger—for help with technology. As war threatened all of Europe in 1941, Great Britain turned to a group of teenage women to break secret Nazi codes. The Brits hid away the teens during an operation at Bletchley Park that was so secret that participants, to this day, can't t talk about what they accomplished.

With Fleming’s strong writing and excellent research, the story of these other groundbreaking women comes alive.

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