Sobre El Autor
Liza Mundy is the bestselling author of Michelle: A Biography and Everything Conceivable. A longtime award-winning reporter for The Washington Post, she is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.
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- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1960-07-08
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Educación
- Princeton University (AB)
University of Virginia (MA, English Literature) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
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- Popularidad
- #13,363
- Valoración
- 4.0
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- 70
- ISBNs
- 64
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- 9
The author gives a rather thorough history of how each woman was recruited and what they left behind to go there. A big part of the book focuses on each woman’s recruitment and their lives during the war, but there are two women who are discussed the most. All of the women were breaking codes that saved thousands of lives but on the flip side they also learned of brothers, husbands or friends dying and they couldn’t do anything to save them. They were the ones that broke the code that allowed the US to intercept and take down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. They couldn’t talk about what they were doing during that time and even for several years afterward they still could not discuss what they did.
I got a bit lost when the author was describing the additives and patterns they used to break codes but otherwise the book was very well-written and quite informative.… (más)