Breaking the Enigma code
Polish contribution to victory

Andrzej Dabrowa, Ph.D.

Enigma machine M Rajewski H Zygalski J. Rozycki
Chapters
  1. Synopsis
  2. Historical background
  3. Breaking the Enigma Code
  4. Polish decrypting effort 1930-1939
  5. Polish decrypting effort 1939-1945
  6. English decrypting effort - the beginnings
  7. England - Bletchley Park
  8. United States in the secret war
  9. Battle of Britain
  10. British northeast Africa
  11. Invasion of French northwest Africa
  12. Battle of the Atlantic
  13. Battle of the terror weapons V1 & V2
  14. German atrocities
  15. Enigma security
  16. Conclusion
  17. Epilogue
  18. Glossary and abbreviations
  19. References

19. References

The following list consists of books containing information relating to specific topics and detailed information
  1. Report (in Polish) by Maj. M. Ciezki, Paris 29th April 1940, Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, 20 Princes Gate, London SW7 1PT
  2. Report (in Polish) by Col. G. Langer, London April 1946 Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, 20 Princes Gate, London SW7 1PT
  3. They Saved London, by Bernard Newman, Printed in Great Britain, Northumberland Press Ltd., Gateshead on Thames, for T. Werner Laurie Limited, 1 Doughty Street, WC1 England, 1952
  4. The Ultra Secret, by W. Winterbotham, Harper and Row Publishers, London, 1974
  5. Ultra Goes to War, by R. Lewin, Hutchinson and Co. Ltd. London, 1978
  6. Intercept-Secret of the Enigma War, by J. Garlinski, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1979
  7. How the Polish Mathematicians Decrypted Enigma (in Polish), by Marian Rejewski, Annales Societatis Mathematicae Polonae, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1981
  8. The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes, by Gordon Welchman, McGraw-Hill, New-York, 1982
  9. Enigma: How the German Cipher Machine Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War 2 , by Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, University Publications of America, Frederick, Maryland, 1984
  10. In the Secret Service, by Major General Rygor Slowikowski, The Windrush Press, 50 Edithna Street, London SW9 9JP, 1988
  11. Ultra at Sea, by John Winton William Morrow and Company, Inc. 105 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016, 1988
  12. Seizing the Enigma - The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes 1939-1943, by D. Kahn, Arrow, Cox and Wyman Ltd., Reading, Berkshire, 1991
  13. Code Breakers - The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, by F. H. Hinsley and A. Stripp, Oxford University Press, 1993
  14. Enigma - The battle for the Code, by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Weidenfeld and Son, 2000
  15. Battle of Wits - the complete story of codebreaking in World War 2, by Stephen Budiansky. Penguin Books Limited, 80 Strand, London, WC2 0RL, 2001
  16. Visit to Bletchley Park

The following list consists of books containing information relating to specific topics or detailed information.

  1. Action V-1, V-2 (in Polish), by Michal Wojewodzki, Institut Wydawniczy PAX, 1975
  2. Hitler's Last Weapon (in Polish), by Josef Garlinski, Odnowa, London, 1977
  3. Most Secret War, by R. V. Jones, Hamish Hamilton Limited, Great Britain, 1978
  4. The Secret War, by Brian Johnson, Methuen Inc. 777 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10017, 1978
  5. Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, Walker and Company, New York, 1983
  6. Station X The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park, by Michael Smith, Channel 4 Books, Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 25 Eccleston Place, London SW1 9NF, 1989
  7. Capturing Enigma, by Stephen Harper, Sutton Publishing Limited, Phoenix Mill Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BU, 1999
  8. The Code Book, by Simon Singh, Anchor Books, A Division of Random House Inc., 2000
  9. Very Special Intelligence, by Patrick Beesly, Stackpole Books, 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanisburg, PA 17005, 2000
  10. Code Breakers, by Rudolf Kippenhahn, The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers Inc., Lewis Hollow Road, Woodstock, New York 12498, 2000

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