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Introduction - Chapter 9

· NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Quinn, Kate. The Rose Code. HarperCollins Publishers, 2021. Ebook edition.

· The Rose Code is a work of historical fiction. While the author incorporates real historical figures and events in the book and based her protagonists on a compilation of different real women, all aspects of the narrative come from the author’s imagination.

· In the Introduction, the author sets the stage for the backdrop of the narrative. She describes the advances of Nazi Germany across Europe in 1939 with the assistance of Enigma machines.

· Enigma machines were proto-types of computers that allowed the Nazis to encrypt their correspondence in codes that were considered unbreakable by the Allied Forces.

· They were wrong.

· This novel takes place in two different timelines (1947 and 1939-1944), alternating in different chapters which indicate the time of events...

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