A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II / Simon Parkin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316492096 : HRD
- ISBN: 0316492094 : HRD
- Physical Description: 309 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: Boston, MA : Little, Brown, [2020]
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General Note: | First published in Great Britain in November 2019 by Sceptre" -- Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Genre: | Creative nonfiction. |
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Orford Social Library | 940.54/516 | 34190000109503 | New items | Available | - |
Summary:
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.