The Secret Codebreakers
The Untold Story of Black Women Cryptologists and the War Against Stalin’s Bomb
$32.41
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
This is the shocking true story of the Black American codebreaking unit whose top-secret work led directly to the end of the Cold War.
Facing the global threat of a rising Communist world power in the aftermath of World War II, the US employed hundreds of Black Americans to speed read Russian communications and gather essential information on the US’s most dangerous nuclear rival.
The result was the creation of a segregated civilian codebreaking unit known as the Traffic Proce…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472148117 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1472148118 |
| Author: | Sarah Valentine |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Robinson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 150mm x 38mm |
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About The Author
Sarah Valentine
Sarah Valentine is one of the few Black Slavists in the United States, with a PhD from Princeton in Russian literature and a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon. Valentine is an incisive writer with a command of Russian language and culture, Cold War intelligence, and civil rights history.
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