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Joining the ranks of Hidden Characters and In your garden of Beasts, the extraordinary true history of the best codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American girl and her man who invented the present day research of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their own time, handling puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped succeed World Battle II. In 1912, at the level of World Battle I, fantastic Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to be employed by an eccentric tycoon on his house outside Chicago. The tycoon got close ties to the US government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her vocabulary skills to a thrilling new business: code breaking. There she attained the man who would become her man, groundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the Adam and Eve of the NSA, Elizebeth's history, incredibly, hasn't been told. In The Woman Who Smashed Codes, Jason Fagone chronicles the life span of this astonishing woman, who enjoyed an intrinsic role inside our nation's history for 40 years. After World Battle I, Smith used her abilities to get gangsters and smugglers during Prohibition, then accepted a covert mission to find and expose Nazi spy wedding rings that were distributing like wildfire across South America, advancing ever nearer to the United States. As World Battle II raged, Elizabeth fought an extremely classified struggle of wits against Hitler's Reich, cracking multiple types of the Enigma machine utilized by German spies. On the other hand, inside an army vault in Washington, William performed furiously to break Purple, japan version of Enigma - and eventually succeeded, at an awful cost to his personal life. Fagone unveils America's code-breaking history through the prism of Smith's life, providing into target the unforgettable occurrences and bright colored personalities that could help shape modern intelligence. Mixing the lively rate and compelling details that will be the hallmarks of Erik Larson's best vendors with the atmosphere and power of The Imitation Game, The Woman Who Smashed Codes is riveting popular history at its finest.
