'Fighting Auschwitz' is the extraordinary story of the unsung heroes who led the most courageous fight for freedom ever recorded.

Fighting Auschwitz

History

Garliński, Józef

Military

Fawcett

Few revelations about the Second World War have aroused so much interest as the fact that Britain was able to read many of the secret communications of the German Armed Forces. Yet the Germans were convinced that Enigma, the enciphering machine they used, was one of their best-kept secrets. In fact, Polish cryptanalysts, with the help of French Intelligence, had unravelled Enigma's mysteries by 1932, constructed some auxiliary devices to make the process of deciphering faster, and handed all these secrets over to the British and French in 1939. Now, using first-hand material, including documents, personal accounts and interviews, Dr Jozef Garlinski tells the full story of the breaking of the Enigma secret - the use of agents and backroom activity, the war of nerves and the excitement. He goes on to recount the setting up of the Ultra net in 1939, based at Bletchley Park in the English home counties, where a small group of cryptanalysts worked night and day to master the continual modifications made to Enigma by the Germans. "Intercept" reveals how the information derived from Enigma played a vital role not only in many actions and campaigns, including the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the war in North Africa and the Allied landing in France, but also in movements of the Soviet Army and in the anti-Hitler conspiracy in Germany. A substantial Appendix explains exactly how Enigma was broken, using mathematical, cryptological and analytic methods.

Intercept: The Enigma War

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

During the Second World War Switzerland was a gigantic corridor of espionage and intrigue, a clearing-house of information passed by agents working for several countries, particularly Soviet Russia, Germany and the Allies. Dr Garlinski has had access to the archives of Swiss Intelligence, has conducted interviews with people who worked in Switzerland during the war, and on the basis of this and other extensive research he makes important new revelations about the Russian network known as the Red Orchestra and the German anti-Hitler network called the Black Orchestra. He presents a new picture of the contacts between Canaris and the Allies and argues that information derived from Bletchley Park could have been passed to a Soviet spy network in Switzerland.

The Swiss Corridor: Espionage Networks in Switzerland During World War II

In "Fighting Auschwitz", Jozef Garlinski told the story of resistance to the Nazi regime within its most infamous concentration camp. He relates the full story of his wartime experiences, from his mobilization into the Polish army in August 1939 and his marriage to Eileen, a British girl on holiday in Warsaw, to his eventual reunion with his wife in November 1945 in London. The intervening years were a harrowing experience for both Jozef and Eileen Garlinski. Separated by the German attack on Poland in 1939, Eileen made the decision to remain in Warsaw while Jozef fought at the front. Wounded in the campaign, Jozef managed to reunite with his wife, now working at the military hospital. Together they joined the Polish underground, fighting a secret war against the Gestapo. Betrayed by a former schoolmate in April 1943, Jozef Garlinski was arrested and sent, without any proof of guilt, to Auschwitz. Eileen remained in Warsaw, surviving the uprising of August and September 1944, in which 250,000 people died. When the Red Army invaded Poland, she fled the country, travelling to Odessa in a Russian cattle-truck, the only woman in a group of freed British prisoners of war, eventually arriving in Glasgow in April 1945 after a long voyage by ship. Jozef also survived, and following his liberation by the US army he spent a period of voluntary service rounding up the last SS men in the woods. A serious attack of typhus fever almost prevented him completing his journey in search of Eileen, but providence, again, won out. Via Frankfurt, Heidelberg and Paris, Jozef Garlinski was finally reunited with his wife in London.

The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer

Romance

Historical

Blackwell Pub.

Vividly recounts the Allies' desperate efforts to break the German code during World War II by using a working model of the German Enigma machine that the Polish intelligence service had reconstructed

The Enigma War: The Inside Story of the German Enigma Codes and How the Allies Broke Them

Europe

Scribner

The Enigma War is a hardcover book with dust jacket by Jozef Garlinski. The inside story of the German Enigma Codes and how the Allies broke them. Illustrated.

The Enigma war

An extraordinary story of the dramatic race to halt Hitler's secret weapons programme.Attack by resistance movements during World War 2 by Auschwitz survivor Polish author Jozef Garlinski tells the story of movements - particularly the underground - and their efforts to derail Hitler's last chance for Victory in Europe: The V1 and V2 rockets.

Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War Against the V1 and V2

Times Books

Fighting Auschwitz: The resistance movement in the concentration camp

Julian Friedmann Publishers Ltd

Hitler's last weapons: The underground war against the V1 and V2

J Friedmann

This book, first published in 1969, discusses objectively the tragic wartime position of Poland, having both the Nazis and Soviets as enemies – the war opened with the country being invaded by both. The book examines the work of the Polish underground army (Home Army) and its cooperation with SOE in providing intelligence of German movements – plans for attacking the Soviet Union, and experiments with V2 rockets. It also gives special attention to the Warsaw Rising and the political and military problems connected with it.

Poland, SOE and the Allies (Routledge Library Editions: WW2)

Reference

Routledge

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