INNOVATION
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
By Simon Parkin · 320 pages
Why this title matters
The story of the British Wrens who used a classified board game to crack the German U-boat problem threatening Allied convoys — showing how unconventional thinkers working outside traditional channels solved a tactical puzzle that formally trained analysts had missed. A reminder that good ideas don't always come from the top.
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