Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
By Liza Mundy Reviewed by: Courtney Gordon-Tennant
| April 30, 2019
In Code Girls, Liza Mundy explores the previously untold story, and largely unrecognized
contributions, of the first women to officially serve as part of World War II US
intelligence code-breaking efforts. At approximately 11,000, these women comprised
more than fifty percent of the 20,000 workers. Based on voluminous research from
the National Cryptologic Museum and the National Archives, Mundy brings to life these
civilian and military women’s stories as they decrypted messages from the enemy Axis
Powers, thereby significantly advancing the Allied war effort.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II