liza mundy, any comment for her? >> guest: well, it was a a time- i haven't heard those particular stories, but i certainly believe them. and it was a time of, you know, enormous dislocation and social change, and i'm sure there were vulnerable young women at hole. and there weree also women -- at home. and there were also women getting on trains, coming to the nation's capital. most of them had the time of their lives, but it was a very chaoticic period. >> host: up next is lavinia in boulder, colorado. go ahead. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. ita love c-span. i watch it almost constantly. my older sister was living in washington. he was working in washington, d.c., and she flew to england. she was a codebreaker. she flew to england, and she worked over there until, i don't know, it was after world war ii was over or not, but she came home. andd she never talked about it. it was a always a secret, it seemed like, to the family. so is i just wanted to tell you that i was really interested in listening to al

>>host: liza mundy what are the logistics moving women to washington, housing them? >> washington was transformed by thousands of women taking the trains, landing in union station, looking for housing, eventually barracks would be built in dorms would be built but it was a scramble for boarding houses or an attic groups of women there -- living together in group houses are living together for the first time. it was a very hard job with a lot of stress and urgency but in the off hours there was a lot of fun the first time they had ever been on chaperones you can imagine. >>host: code girls is the book liza mundy is our guest our guest is calling in from hawaii please go ahead. >> caller: can you hear me? this isn't directly about necessarily the code girls although i'm sure what you said happened to them and i listen to the other two ladies but have you heard from any of the other two or three ladies who put the bug in your ear about the code girls what we know of called the funny uncles? the men who did not go to war and the children who had to stay at home and live

liza mundy, how do you find a history like this? did you stumble on it? >> guest: yes. so i read a

after that, a conversation with liza mundy, author of "code girls", and benn steil talks about "the marshallplan". now an interview with author robert harris about his historical novel "munich", about the munich conversation that took place at world war ii. this took place at the churchill library at george washington university in washington d.c. this is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations] >>