Lois Widmark, 102, of Ivanhoe, was a codebreaker during World War II. Widmark enjoys quilting, embroidery, gardening, driving to church and cuddling her cat Muggins.

This year, the "One Book, One Batavia" selection will be "The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies" by Jason Fagone. Read the ...

The breaking of German codes that took place at Bletchley Park, an estate outside of London, during the Second World War, is now famous—but its historiography is unusual. Until 1974, almost thirty ...

The path to Walter Isaacson’s latest book began when he was 16 years old. That was when his father gave him a copy of “The Double Helix,” James Watson’s account of his team’s discovery of the ...