The First Enigma Codebreaker
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The First Enigma Codebreaker

The Untold Story of Marian Rejewski who Passed the Baton to Alan Turing

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The First Enigma Codebreaker

The Untold Story of Marian Rejewski who Passed the Baton to Alan Turing

About this book

The First Enigma Codebreaker is the story of a man who started a revolution in cryptology and the conflict between man and machine. This is a powerful story of the life of Marian Rejewski and how history can affect individual lives, presented to the public for the first time. This examination of how Marian Rejewski changed the course of cryptology is of great interest to everyone from the avid historian to Hollywood film producers and all those in-between. As Gawlowski's biography shows, Rejewski was an unassuming man who used his mathematical, skills as well as his extensive linguistic abilities, to start cracking the Enigma code before passing the baton on to the now renowned Alan Turing. This is a fascinating, human story about the man Marian Rejewski, which also ties up the loose threads of the Enigma story and shows the importance of the Polish involvement in that process. The First Enigma Codebreaker looks at those involved in cracking the Enigma and also takes a look at an aspect that has rarely been discussed in great detail, the story of Marian Rejewski himself, and how he endured life in post-war Communist Poland shining a light on situations such as how Rejewski managed to decode the machine, what happened to him during the Second World War, and the price he had to pay during the post war period.

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Information

Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781399069120
Topic
History
Subtopic
Military Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Birth
  7. Chapter 2: Family and Growing up
  8. Chapter 3: Studies in Poznań
  9. Chapter 4: GĂśttingen and First Professional Steps
  10. Chapter 5: Warsaw and the Break of Enigma
  11. Chapter 6: The Best Years of Life
  12. Chapter 7: Handing on the Baton in the Relay
  13. Chapter 8: The Outbreak of the Second World War
  14. Chapter 9: Arrival in Great Britain
  15. Chapter 10: The Time of Transition
  16. Chapter 11: Return to Post-War Bydgoszcz
  17. Chapter 12: Life in a New Reality
  18. Chapter 13: The ‘Staff ’ and ‘Targowica’
  19. Chapter 14: Recording and Operational Case No. 819/56: ‘Cryptologist’
  20. Chapter 15: The Little Stabilisation
  21. Chapter 16: I am the One who Cracked the Machine
  22. Chapter 17: Ne gaspille pas le temps, parce que le temps c’est le matière dont la vie est faite
  23. Chapter 18: Everyday Life and Secrets of Enigma
  24. Conclusion
  25. Bibliography
  26. Endnotes
  27. Plates