Misread Signals
How History Overlooked Women Codebreakers
$48.01
- Hardcover
- Release Date
21 August 2025
Summary
Bletchley Park was – so we’re told – staffed by a majority of women, who had menial roles while a handful of pipe-smoking male boffins did the brainy codebreaking stuff. As with many urban myths, it’s not true: women as well as men had serious full-on codebreaking roles. And not just at Bletchley, but in codebreaking agencies in the US and even in Germany. Yet, when the histories were written, the codebreaker women somehow got left out. Who were they? What did they achieve? How come they vani…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803997933 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803997931 |
| Author: | Dermot Turing |
| Publisher: | The History Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The History Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Release Date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 165mm x 242mm |
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Critics Review
‘For far too long the female codebreakers have been overlooked in the history of code-breaking and cryptanalysis. Dermot’s groundbreaking research finally places on record their incredible contribution. It is inspirational…’
– Helen Fry, author of Women in Intelligence‘Exploding the myth of the one, exceptional, woman, Dermot Turing decodes the archives … to reveal the hugely important role played by female cryptanalysts … An important and exciting contribution to the history.’
– Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo‘The author has done an incredible job in bringing these invisible women to life. They are a joy to discover, and I cannot recommend this book highly enough.’
* Who Do You Think You Are? magazine *Dermot Turing
Dermot Turing is the author of X, Y and Z: the Real Story of how Enigma Was Broken; Alan Turing Decoded; and Enigma Traitors, which reveals the inadequacies of Allied codes during the Second World War. He began writing in 2014 after a career in law. He is a trustee of The National Museum of Computing and a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. Dermot is married with two sons and lives in Kippen in Stirlingshire.
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