The Enigma War

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. xx. 268 pages. List of Plates. List of Line Drawings. Foreword by Professor R. V. Jones. Abbreviations. Footnotes. Illustrations. Map. Chapter notes. Appendix, Select Bibliography. Index. DJ in plastic sleeve with some wear. Jozef Garlinski (14 October 1913, Kiev - 29 November 2005, London) was a Polish historian and prose writer. He wrote many notable books on the history of World War II, some of which were translated into English. In particular, his book Fighting Auschwitz, translated into English in 1975, became a best-seller. Garlinski participated in the Invasion of Poland of 1939 and was a member of the Armia Krajowa. He was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Pawiak, later in Auschwitz and Neuengamme German concentration camps. Garlinski was prisoner number 121421 at the Auschwitz camp and had arrived on 13 May 1943, on the same transport as Jerzy Chmielewski, after which they were both sent to a Penal Company. After the war Garlinski settled in Great Britain. Vividly recounts the Allies' desperate efforts to break the German code during World War II by using a working model of the German Enigma machine that the Polish intelligence service had reconstructed. The Enigma machines are a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines mainly developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect diplomatic and military communication. Enigma was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. Early models were adopted by military and government services of several countries, most notably Nazi Germany. Several different Enigma models were produced, but the German military models, having a plugboard, were the most complex. On 26 and 27 July 1939, the Poles initiated French and British military intelligence representatives into their Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment, including Zygalski sheets and the cryptologic bomb, and promised each delegation a Polish-reconstructed Enigma. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: WWII Codebreaker, WWII, Codes, Gustave Bertrand, Bletchley Park, Rudolf Roessler, Enigma Machine, Codebreaking, Espionage, Military Operations, Signit, Signals Intelligence

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