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Enigma girls - Fleming, Candace
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Enigma girls
Type : Books
SKU: VV1608651
ISBN: 9781338749571
Pages: 384
Format: 217 x 149 x 33
Cover: Hardback
Year: 2024
Publisher: Scholastic UK (Scholastic UK)
Your Price: $121.84
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Краткая аннотация:
«You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know.» This was the terse telegram hundreds of young women throughout the British Isles received in the spring of 1941, as World War II raged. As they arrived at Station X, a sprawling mansion in a state of disrepair surrounded by Spartan-looking huts with little chimneys coughing out thick smoke?these young people had no idea what kind of work they were stepping into. Who had recommended them? Why had they been chosen? Most would never learn all the answers to these questions. Bletchley Park was a well-kept secret during World War II, operating under the code name Station X. The critical work of code-cracking Nazi missives that went on behind its closed doors could determine a victory or loss against Hitler’s army. Amidst the brilliant cryptographers, flamboyant debutantes, and absent-minded professors working there, it was teenaged girls who kept Station X running. Some |
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