The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies

Details: Elizebeth Smith, a great Shakespeare expert, went to work for an eccentric businessman on his home outside Chicago in 1912, during the height of World War I. The tycoon had extensive contacts with the US government, and he quickly requested Elizebeth to use her linguistic abilities to help him with an intriguing new project: code-cracking. There she met the man who would become her husband, William Friedman, a pioneering cryptologist.