The Bletchley Girls

 

The Bletchley Girls - How 8000 Women Outsmarted Enigma
 

For decades, the story of Bletchley Park was told as a drama of lone male geniuses and dusty professors.

But the silent truth behind the "Ultra" secret is that the nerve centre of British intelligence
was overwhelmingly female.

Of the roughly 10,000 people working at Bletchley Park at the height of World War II,
nearly 8,000 were women.

They didn't just file papers; they were the mathematicians, the linguists, and the operators
who broke the back of the German war machine.

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