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A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II by Parkin, Simon is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Soon to be a major motion picture! It's 1941. Imagine you're Winston Churchill. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Supply ships ferrying vital weapons, food and fuel from North America are being torpedoed by the German U-boats. You are lying to the country about the number of ships sunk. You are lying about the number of men killed. Without the supply ships Britain will starve. The tide of the war is turning in Germany's favour. This is the story of the game of battleships that won the Second World War. In 1941 Prime Minster Winston Churchill gathered a group of unlikely heroes - a retired naval captain and eight brilliant young women, the youngest only seventeen years-old - to form a secret strategy unit. On the top floor of a ramshackle HQ in Liverpool, the Western Approaches Tactical Unit spent day and night playing war games to crack the U-boat tactics.

Who reads A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Parkin, Simon
Publisher
Back Bay Books ; Little, Brown and Company
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9780316492065
Category
history
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
4.4 / 5 (769 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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