8 Best nonfiction books like Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming

Cover of Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming

Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

By: Jan Slimming

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children,…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Bletchley Girls by Tessa Dunlop

1. The Bletchley Girls

By: Tessa Dunlop

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The story of the women of Bletchley Park, Britain's top secret code-breaking school, is told throug… read more

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  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery by Plum Sykes

2. Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery

By: Plum Sykes

3.81

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

It's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are de rigeur. Ursula Flowerbu… read more

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3. The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There

By: Sinclair McKay

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracki… read more

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4. Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy

By: Peter S. Canellos

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded… read more

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5. In the Balance (Miss Silver, #4)

By: Patricia Wentworth

3.77

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Wartime at Bletchley Park (The Bletchley Park Girls #1) by Molly Green

6. Wartime at Bletchley Park (The Bletchley Park Girls #1)

By: Molly Green

4.14

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

Her code breaking will save lives. But will it save the man she loves…? September 1939. London … read more

Similar categories in Molly Green's Wartime at Bletchley Park (The Bletchley Park Girls #1) book and Jan Slimming's Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

  • world war ii
Cover of Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm (Blackberry Farm #3) by Rosie Clarke

7. Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm (Blackberry Farm #3)

By: Rosie Clarke

4.59

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Cambridgeshire – 1942 As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped.… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labuskes

8. The Librarian of Burned Books

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.93

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWI… read more

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  • world war ii
"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?"

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sough violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

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9. After Dunkirk (After Dunkirk #1)

By: Lee Jackson

4.37

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tradition of grand World War II sagas Beneath a Scarlet Sky and Of Windmills and War, After … read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Death in Daylesford (Phryne Fisher, #21) by Kerry Greenwood

10. Death in Daylesford (Phryne Fisher, #21)

By: Kerry Greenwood

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Taking the waters has never been more delicious--or dangerous... When a mysterious invitation fo… read more

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Cover of A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II by Harry H. Crosby

11. A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the US Eighth Air Force in Action Over Europe in World War II

By: Harry H. Crosby

4.58

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

"Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war a… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Her Daughter's Secret by Lisa Timoney

12. Her Daughter's Secret

By: Lisa Timoney

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Will her daughter’s secret tear her family apart? When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she le… read more

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Cover of The Christmas Bell Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates, #12) by Benedict Brown

13. The Christmas Bell Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates, #12)

By: Benedict Brown

4.41

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chance meeting on a snowy platform, an old miser with a fortune worth killing for, and the wrong … read more

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14. The Road to Station X: From Debutante Ball to Fighter-Plane Factory to Bletchley Park, a Memoir of One Woman's Journey Through World War Two

By: Sarah Baring

4.00

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1938, Sarah Baring was enjoying life as a young debutante. Only a few years later, at the height… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The School for German Brides by Aimie K. Runyan

15. The School for German Brides

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific "bride school" to be m… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

16. Under the Paper Moon

By: Shaina Steinberg

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Thin Man ’s Nick and Nora Charles in this intrigue-filled debut from f… read more

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Cover of Death on Deck (Lady Eleanor Swift #13) by Verity Bright

17. Death on Deck (Lady Eleanor Swift #13)

By: Verity Bright

4.37

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

When Lady Swift embarks upon her first luxury cruise she imagines a gilded ballroom, afternoons on … read more

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Cover of The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis by John Dermot Turing

18. The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis

By: John Dermot Turing

3.90

Format: None pages, kindle_edition

' Turing writes on codebreaking with understandable authority and compelling panache. ' - Michael S… read more

Similar categories in John Dermot Turing's The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park: The Secret Intelligence Station that Helped Defeat the Nazis book and Jan Slimming's Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Forger of Marseille: A Novel by Linda Joy Myers

19. The Forger of Marseille: A Novel

By: Linda Joy Myers

4.43

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

It’s 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to a… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park by Jan Slimming

20. Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

By: Jan Slimming

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"What would it be like to keep a secret for fifty years? Never telling your parents, your children,… read more

Similar categories in Jan Slimming's Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park book and Jan Slimming's Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park

  • world war ii
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Belsen Files (The Sikora Files Book 3) by Jack Carnegie

21. The Belsen Files (The Sikora Files Book 3)

By: Jack Carnegie

4.47

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

The wartime files retrieved from the loft of a former camp guard at Belsen provide a name and a cro… read more

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Cover of Under a Lightning Sky by Pam Lecky

22. Under a Lightning Sky

By: Pam Lecky

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

London is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks…The Luftwaffe has been bombin… read more

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Cover of Year Without Summer: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History

23. Year Without Summer: A History from Beginning to End

By: Hourly History

4.21

Format: 61 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable history of the Year Without Summer...Free BONUS Inside!In terms of world hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen

24. The Rose Arbor

By: Rhys Bowen

4.30

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

An investigation into a girl’s disappearance uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II in a ha… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II by W.J. Holmes

25. Double-Edged Secrets: U.S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II

By: W.J. Holmes

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Offers a firsthand account of the small group of men who gathered and used intelligence at Pearl Ha… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rosemary for Remembrance by Nikki Broadwell

26. Rosemary for Remembrance

By: Nikki Broadwell

3.90

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Rosemary and Dylan have grown apart since his return from WW2 and prison camp. But when memories fr… read more

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Cover of Alan Rickman: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors) by Hourly History

27. Alan Rickman: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Actors)

By: Hourly History

4.37

Format: 106 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Alan Rickman...Free BONUS Inside!Alan Rickman was one of Britain’s … read more

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Cover of Jimmy Buffett: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians) by Hourly History

28. Jimmy Buffett: A Life from Beginning to End (Biographies of Musicians)

By: Hourly History

4.34

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Jimmy Buffett...Free BONUS Inside!Jimmy Buffett is an icon. His son… read more

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Cover of The Age of the End (A Vengeful Realm, #3) by Tim Facciola

29. The Age of the End (A Vengeful Realm, #3)

By: Tim Facciola

4.39

Format: 665 pages, Kindle Edition

The flood of blood drowns New Rheynia, but The Age of the End is only just beginning. Though the t… read more

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Cover of Chester Nimitz: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies) by Hourly History

30. Chester Nimitz: A Life from Beginning to End (World War 2 Biographies)

By: Hourly History

4.05

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable life of Chester Nimitz...Free BONUS Inside!Admiral Chester Nimitz stands ta… read more

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Cover of Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence by Joel Greenberg

31. Gordon Welchman: Bletchley Park's Architect of Ultra Intelligence

By: Joel Greenberg

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Gordon Welchman was one of Bletchley Park's most important figures. Like Turing, his pioneering wor… read more

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  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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