The Woman Who Smashed Codes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NPR Best Book of 2017 ΓÇ£Not all superheroes wear capes,and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇö The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beaststhe incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever livedan American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their timesolving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1916at the height of World War Ibrilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. governmentand he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she met the man who would become her husbandgroundbreaking cryptologist William Friedman. Though she and Friedman are in many ways the \