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.
Main subject: Autobiography and Biography
History
Politics
ISBN: 9780062430489 (cloth); 9780062430519 (pap.); 9780062430502 (ebook)
Citation: 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 November 6, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2075.
Updated: 11-15-2022

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