The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
Author
Jason Fagone
Content
xvi + 444 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York: Dey Street Books/William Morrow
Description
Biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, a founder of modern intelligence methods including cryptology who used codebreaking to catch criminals; infiltrated a Nazi group in South America; cracked Hitler's Enigma machine; and collaborated on projects with her husband, William Friedman, the celebrated pioneer of signal intelligence.
Fagone, Jason. The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies. New York: Dey Street Books/William Morrow, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2075.
