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

by Simon Parkin

with careful design, games had the capacity to make experts of amateurs, to instil in players invaluable, potentially life-saving, battle-winning experience.

King George gestured at the floor, still littered with the remnants of the game, a shanty town of play. ‘This,’ he said, leaning in, ‘is the key to the Battle of the Atlantic.’