My Goodreads review: A Game of Birds and Wolves

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

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I love women's history. My husband is a WW II history fan. And we both enjoyed the heck out of A Game of Birds and Wolves, a fresh take on how a group of WRENs & an invalided-out British naval officer helped win the Battle of the Atlantic by means of a very large-format simulation game.

This is nonfiction that reads (listens) like high-quality suspense fiction, with a focus on character rather than simply tactical information - though there's plenty of that as well. Occasionally, the number of characters involved got a little confusing; though that might have been due to enjoying this as an audiobook. I'm still giving it a full five stars for the importance of this bit of WW II history, which hasn't gotten a lot of previous attention. Sadly, most of the women involved went to their graves without being individually recognized for their achievements.

Well worth a full credit purchase on Audible, IMHO.






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