A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

by Simon Parkin and Simon Parkin

Book Overview

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.

By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316492094
• ISBN13: 9780316492096
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"