Codename Rygor: The Spy Behind the Allied Victory in North Africa - Softcover

Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190644708X ISBN 13: 9781906447083

Publisher: Dialogue, 2010

Synopsis

The best collection of military, espionage, and adventure stories ever told. The Dialogue Espionage Classics series began in 2010 with the purpose of bringing back classic out-of-print spying and espionage tales. From WWI and WWII to the Cold War, D-Day to the SOE, Bletchley Park to the Comet Line this fascinating spy history series brings you the best stories that should never be forgotten. Major General Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski, codenamed Rygor, was a Polish intelligence officer who helped establish Allied spy networks in occupied France, and later, in German occupied North Africa. In July 1941, Slowikowski was transferred to Algiers where he set up and ran one of the War s most successful intelligence operations, providing the vast bulk of the intelligence for Operation Torch, the 1942 Allied invasion of North Africa. This was the first joint Allied military operation involving both the British and the Americans, in the first large-scale Allied landings of the war. Although it is not as well known as the later operations in France and Italy, Torch provided a turning point in the war against the Axis powers. Slowikowski lit the fuse. His immense bravery and effort were later rewarded with the American Legion of Merit and an Order of the British Empire. This is his extraordinary story.

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About the Author

Demobilized in 1947, Major General Mieczyslaw Zygfryd Slowikowski settled in London where he lived until his death in 1989.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dialogue
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 190644708X
• ISBN 13: 9781906447083
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352