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Enigma : how the Poles broke the Nazi code / Wladyslaw Kozaczuk ; Jerzy Straszak

by Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, Jerzy Straszak

This concise history details how Polish mathematicians broke the German Enigma cipher in 1933. It explores how sharing this vital intelligence with Britain and France in 1939 laid the foundations for the Allied codebreaking successes at Bletchley Park.

Accession 10944 ISBN 078180941X Publisher Hippocrene
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