Seems there were a lot of women at Bletchley and if your gran used to say she was doing “secretarial” work there during the war she was probably under a cone of silence. The central characters in this story are three women: one deb (who is the girlfriend of Philip before he marries the queen), one sensible middle-class girl and one working-class girl at whose house the other two are billeted. On the periphery of Turin’s story is a cast of thousands, and The Rose Code, with barely a mention of Turin, brings these outsiders to the core and shines a light on their extraordinary achievements. It’s quite alarming how a good story comes to dominate the historical narrative. Bletchley Park is all about the Enigma machine and Alan Turing who broke the German codes and won the war, pretty much single-handedly, right?
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