Research Catalog

Title

The first Enigma codebreaker : the untold story of Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing / Robert Gawłowski.

Author

Gawłowski, Robert

Publication

• Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

ix, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of one of the greatest armed conflicts in the history of the world appeals to everyone from the avid historian to Hollywood. So far, other authors' attention has focused on the technical and cryptological issues of Enigma functioning, the fate of the Bletchley Park facility, or Alan Turing's story. Most of the attention was devoted to the events during the Second World War and it is the time frame of this conflict that usually begins and ends the story of Enigma. 'The First Enigma Codebreaker' raises an issue that has never been discussed in greater detail in both international and Polish literature, the story of Marian Rejewski. This biography answers the questions: in what conditions was the ""Enigma conqueror"" brought up, in what circumstances did he manage to decode the machine, what happened to him during the Second World War and why he never ended up in Bletchley Park, what price he had to pay for his discovery in the communist Poland and what he did to make the world know the true history of Enigma. This is the story of a man who made a revolution in cryptology, about the rivalry between man and machine, about powerful history affecting individual lives, and about the life of Marian Rejewski whose story is still waiting to be presented to the public."

Uniform Title

Jestem tym, który rozszyfrował Enigmę. English

Alternative Title

Jestem tym, który rozszyfrował Enigmę.

Subject

• Rejewski, Marian, 1905-1980
• 1939-1945
• Cryptographers > Poland > Biography
• Cryptographers > Great Britain > Biography
• Mathematicians > Poland > Biography
• Enigma cipher system
• World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography
• Mathematicians
• Cryptography
• Cryptographers
• Enigma cipher system
• Great Britain
• Poland

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Translated from the Polish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.

Call Number

JFE 23-3499

ISBN

• 9781399069106
• 1399069101

OCLC

1355078001

Author

Gawłowski, Robert, author.

Title

The first Enigma codebreaker : the untold story of Marian Rejewski who passed the baton to Alan Turing / Robert Gawłowski.

Publisher

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword Military, an imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-181) and index.

Local Note

TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Research Call Number

JFE 23-3499