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The First Enigma Codebreaker

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

By: Robert Gawlowski

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eBook | 6 March 2023

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A biography of the first man to decipher Nazi Germany's secret messages and alter the course of World War II.

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 Robert 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 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 Rejewski himself, and how he endured life in post-war Communist Poland shining a light on situations such as how he managed to decode the machine, what happened to him during the Second World War, and the price he had to pay afterwards.