Really interesting! Describes the American counterparts of Turing and Bletchley park during WWII. (There was very little coordination between the teams.)
I learned so much reading this book about the amazing life of Elizebeth Friedman. This is definitely a love story in the story of William and Elizebeth, but it's so much more. Spies, espionage, Nazi's, the world during the first half of the 1900's and the dedication of heroes who thought their brilliance outwitted our enemies.
I was surprised how much of the story was about her husband seeing that the title was: The Woman who Smashed Codes. Started to make more sense about halfway through when I realized it was written by a man.
I guess it goes along with Elizebeth’s personality to not like the spotlight, but definitely think the title deceives the book’s tone. Doesn’t help I am also reading Lessons in Chemistry, which is about a different badass Elizabeth working in STEM in the 1950s lol.
I like a lot about this book, but the title is just awful. Everytime I took the book out of my bag it felt like I was being clickbaited (readbaited? bookbaited?). What I liked very much was that the book read like a novel instead of a biography and got me immediately invested in the subject of the Friedmans and cryptography. Also, I have never been much of a WWII history-buff, but I must say that Fagone really got me interested in this part of the history. There were some minor things that I liked less. First Fagone described William Friedman as a brilliant man who batteled with depression, the fact that he then sometimes put him on the page as a whiny, needy little man felt therefore a little... harsch. Another thing is that I really liked Fagones writing style, but sometimes he felt the need to hype it up with "smashing codes" and his superlative awe for the scientific method. These moments just stood out and kept annoying me once every while. This was however one of the most fun biographies I've read so far!… (más)
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