[CarrotAndStick]

Somewhat related:

New book on Indo-British WWII agent


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578045/posts

[E Rocc]

Most of the history books I've read mentioned the role of the Poles in breaking Enigma. Tom Clancy even mentioned it in The Hunt For Red October, in a subplot that didn't make the movie.

-Eric

[DTA]

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[Malesherbes]

Good article. I recently saw an Emigma on display in Warsaw, and it may have been the original given to Buzek in 2000, tho' I'm not sure of that. The Poles became aware of the importance of cryptography during their 1920 war with the Bolsheviks. By the summer of 1939 they had a highly sophisticated and secret operation going in a forest near Pyry just south of Warsaw. It was there that they gave the amazed British and French copies of Engima -which set off a chain of events that had much to do with Germany's ultimate defeat in WWII.

[Iris7]

Personally I believe the initial cracking of Enigma by Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski the most remarkable intellectual feat of the 20th Century.

British "Codes and Cyphers" (official code breakers) article

Accessible and thorough, NON-technical

Wiki articles, look correct to me

Technical, written by a mathematician

This is a thorough look at the subject on CD.