The history of Enigma is of interest to many researchers and authors on
an international scale. The capture and unraveling of the most hidden
secret of the army of the Third Reich that was decisive for the fate of
one of the greatest armed conflicts in the history of the world appeals
to everyone from the avid historian to Hollywood. So far, other authors'
attention has focused on the technical and cryptological issues of
Enigma functioning, the fate of the Bletchley Park facility, or Alan
Turing's story. Most of the attention was devoted to the events during
the Second World War and it is the time frame of this conflict that
usually begins and ends the story of Enigma. The First Enigma
Codebreaker raises an issue that has never been discussed in greater
detail in both international and Polish literature, the story of Marian
Rejewski. This biography answers the questions: in what conditions was
the ""Enigma conqueror"" brought up, in what circumstances did he manage
to decode the machine, what happened to him during the Second World War
and why he never ended up in Bletchley Park, what price he had to pay
for his discovery in the communist Poland and what he did to make the
world know the true history of Enigma. This is the story of a man who
made a revolution in cryptology, about the rivalry between man and
machine, about powerful history affecting individual lives, and about
the life of Marian Rejewski whose story is still waiting to be presented
to the public.
