Female Code Breakers Cracking Imperial Japan’s Cyphers

An excellent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books on several new books on female code breakers in WW2 – Liza Mundy’s Code Girls and Jason Fagone’s The Woman Who Smashed Codes. The LARB article by Joseph Peschel is here. Both books touch on breaking Japanese as well as the much better known stories of the Nazi codes, Enigma, Bletchley and all that…Both add to the library on cracking Japan’s codes alongside Michael Smith’s The Emperor’s Codes from some years ago but which remains very relevant to the topic.