{"product_id":"misread-signals-how-history-overlooked-women-codebreakers-9781803997933","title":"Misread Signals: How History Overlooked Women Codebreakers","description":"\u003cp\u003e \"It is inspirational.\" - Helen Fry, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"An important and exciting contribution to history.\" - Clare Mulley, author of \u003ci\u003eAgent Zo\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBletchley Park is often remembered as a world of brilliant male intellectuals--Alan Turing, William Tutte, and John Tiltman--supported by women in clerical roles. These men worked on the formidable Enigma and Lorenz cipher systems, helping to turn the tide of the war in the Allies' favor.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But that's not the full story. Women were not just secretaries or assistants; many were accomplished codebreakers in their own right. And their work wasn't limited to Bletchley, to Britain, or even to World War II. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMisread Signals\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the remarkable women whose contributions have long been overlooked: Margaret Rock, who solved Enigma and other machine problems; Agnes Driscoll, the U.S. Navy's pioneering codebreaker; and Asta Friedrichs, who after the war became a key source on German Foreign Office cryptography. These women--and many others like them--helped shape the course of intelligence history, only to be written out of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Who were they? What did they accomplish? And how did they \"vanish\"? In \u003ci\u003eMisread Signals\u003c\/i\u003e, expert codebreaking historian Dermot Turing restores these women to their rightful place in history, shining a light on their extraordinary and long-forgotten achievements. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803997933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264","brand":"Dermot Turing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491456086197,"sku":"9781803997933","price":32.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_309eee82-4480-4524-8126-3aa9748dcc49.jpg?v=1777996456","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/misread-signals-how-history-overlooked-women-codebreakers-9781803997933","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}