The Rose Code (Larger Print)
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Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
Author:
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
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From the author: âMy Bletchley Park heroines, by contrast (to other books), are in ⦠little physical danger; they spend the majority of their war safe in little green huts in the countryside, scratching away at cryptograms with pencil stubs. Their war is fought in the intellectual arena rather than the physical . . . but for all that, it's no less grueling or heroic. The women of Bletchley Park may not have spilled blood in their fight, but they made enormous personal sacrifices in their battle to break Germany's supposedly-unbreakable Enigma ciphers.â
Codebreakers worked hard and while they weren't actually fighting their work behind the lines helped win the war. The key characters are Ola, Mab and Beth. High society Osla is in love with Prince Philip of Greece; poor but haughty Mab loves a London-based spyâ and mousy. brilliant Beth loves a British codebreaker.
The story is told in two timelines, the present and years back during WWII. It brims with intense pressure that builds with the telling. The women can tell no one what they do, discuss it during or after the war with anyone. When the friendship dissolves they must unite later to identify a traitor. Beth is forced into Clockwell Sanatorium when she comes too close to a traitor working at Bletchley while working on the rose code. Beth realizes what has happened and contacts Osla. Osla knows it will be difficult to recruit Mab to join them find the traitor.
Codebreakers worked hard and while they weren't actually fighting their work behind the lines helped win the war. The key characters are Ola, Mab and Beth. High society Osla is in love with Prince Philip of Greece; poor but haughty Mab loves a London-based spyâ and mousy. brilliant Beth loves a British codebreaker.
The story is told in two timelines, the present and years back during WWII. It brims with intense pressure that builds with the telling. The women can tell no one what they do, discuss it during or after the war with anyone. When the friendship dissolves they must unite later to identify a traitor. Beth is forced into Clockwell Sanatorium when she comes too close to a traitor working at Bletchley while working on the rose code. Beth realizes what has happened and contacts Osla. Osla knows it will be difficult to recruit Mab to join them find the traitor.
