Alan Turing wartime manuscript, Enigma machine up for auction 03:27. During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi ...

Women made up the majority of cryptologists working in the U.S. by the end of the war. The stamp also contains a cipher, with a pane on the back that includes a key to cracking the code.

This, for me, was a watershed book on women in WWII. Mundy’s success in placing an inherently fantastic story—the history of American women who served as codebreakers during the war—in its ...

Almost 160,000 Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day in a massive amphibious operation designed to break through heavily fortified German defenses and begin the liberation of Western Europe.