A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
✍ Scribed by Great Britain. Royal Navy. Western Approaches Tactical Unit.;Parkin, Simon
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Edition
- First US edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Atlantic Ocean., Great Britain.
- ISBN
- 0316494313
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✦ Synopsis
The triumphant story of a group of young women who helped devised a winning strategy to defeat the Nazi U-boats and deliver 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 of ten Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service) assigned to his team in an attempt to reveal the tactics behind the vicious success of the German U-boats. Played on a linoleum floor divided into painted squares, it required model ships to be moved across a make-believe ocean in a manner reminiscent of the childhood game, Battleship. Through play, the designers developed "Operation Raspberry," a countermaneuver that helped turn the tide of World War II.
Combining vibrant novelistic storytelling with extensive research, interviews, and previously unpublished accounts, Simon Parkin...
✦ Subjects
Great Britain