abstract:Code Breakers is an ESPN Original Entertainment TV movie that was first broadcast December 10, 2005 at 9pm ET on ESPN and ESPN HD. The movie followed the Heisman Trophy presentation.
Early in the secondworldwar, Britaintook its timeto letAmericainto thesecretsofUltra, the decryption ofGermansecretcommunications by code-breakersat Bletchley Park.
In The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography, due out soon from Doubleday, British author Simon Singh traces the evolution of the centuries-old battle between code writers and code breakers.
How would they know about our women prisoners of war, or female military astronauts and code breakers, and the courage of young African-American women soldiers during World War II?