Cryptologic Museum Recommended Reading

From a handout found at the National Cryptologic Museum Library, October 2019:

Books
1. The Codebreakers, by David Kahn.
2. The Secret Sentry, by Matthew Aid
3. Battle of Wits, by Stephen Budiansky
4. Code Warriors, by Stephen Budiansky
5. Code Girls, by Liza Mundy
6. The Woman Who Smashed Codes, by Jason Fagone
7. The Puzzle Palace, by James Bamford
8. Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, by James Bamford
9. The Reading of Gentlemen’s Mail, by David Kahn
10. Seizing the Enigma, by David Kahn
11. Codes, Ciphers and Other Cryptic and Clandestine Communications, by Fred Wrixon
12. Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges
13. Playing to the Edge, Michael Hayden
14. The Code Book, by Simon Singh
15. Unsolved, by Craig Bauer
16. Unlikely Warriors, by Lonnie Long and Gary Blackburn
17. The Price of Vigilance, by Larry Tart and Robert Keefe
18. Joe Rochefort’s War, by Elliot Carlson
19. Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s Story, by Leo Marks
20. The Riddle of the Labyrinth, by Margalit Fox

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Today's Document from the National Archives
- "Young pickers on Swift's Bog..." September 20, 2020
  Taken by investigative photographer Lewis Hine on September 20, 1911, this photograph is one of a series of black-and-white prints given to the Children’s Bureau by the National Child Labor Committee. The almost five hundred photographs represent a fraction of the approximately 5,000 photographs Hine took for the committee to document working and living conditions […]

CODE GIRLS

In the summer of 2015 I was contacted by an author interested in the stories of the Sugar Camp WAVES–one of my favorite topics. Now their story as well as that of the WACS at Arlington Hall is available and wonderfully successful.

“Code Girls is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary author. Liza Mundy’s portraits of World War II codebreakers are so skillfully and vividly drawn that I felt as if I were right there with them—mastering ciphers, outwitting the Japanese army, sinking ships, breaking hearts, and even accidentally insulting Eleanor Roosevelt. I am an evangelist for this book: You must read it.”
author of The Good Girls Revolt – Lynn Povich

Stray Thoughts

Something you entered
transcended parameters.
So much is unknown.

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