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Title details for Spying on Spies by Marissa Moss - Available

Spying on Spies

How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes

by Marissa Moss
Sandy Rustin
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The fascinating story of America's first female code-breaker, Elizebeth Smith Friedman
As one of the world's greatest code-breakers, Elizebeth Smith Friedman saved many lives throughout the twentieth century, catching dangerous criminals with her brilliant mind. Yet, she has largely been written out of history books, unlike her famous code-breaker husband. Spying on Spies seeks to right this oversight.
Whip-smart and determined, Elizebeth displayed a remarkable aptitude for language and recognizing patterns from a young age. After she became the Treasury Department's and Coast Guard's first code-breaker, she trained all her male colleagues and created her own top-notch code-breaking unit, the first ever led by a woman.
During Prohibition, her work solving and intercepting coded messages from mobsters and criminal gangs led to hundreds of high-profile prosecutions, including members of Al Capone's gang. Her crowning achievement came during World War II, when Elizebeth uncovered an intricate network of Nazi spies operating in South America. She cracked supposedly unsolvable codes just like the much more famous Alan Turing did at Bletchley Park in England.
Spying on Spies tells the inspiring story of a groundbreaking woman in STEM whose legacy deserves to come out of the shadows.
This audiobook contains a supplemental PDF.

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  • Release date

    March 12, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9798891788145
      • File size: 91783 KB
      • Duration: 03:11:12

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sandy Rustin earned an Earphones Award for her narration of Marissa Moss's WOMAN WHO SPLIT THE ATOM, about the physicist Lise Meitner. Now she returns to lend her vocal talents to Moss's follow-up, a biography of another brilliant woman whose contributions have been overlooked. Rustin's clear, musical voice introduces listeners to Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who, with her husband, effectively established the discipline of cryptanalysis in the U.S. Working as the head of her own unit during WWII, she broke the Enigma cipher and exposed Nazi espionage in South America. Rustin's delivery is restrained yet allows for exasperation to break through at the many times Friedman was sidelined and underestimated. Important and inspiring. V.S. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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