In 1954–55, following the Korean War, Kozaczuk carried out armistice-related duties in Korea. In 1955–58 he served in the Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych). In 1957–58 he saw duty with the International Control Commission in Vietnam.
In 1958–69 he served in Polish military counter-intelligence (Wojskowa Służba Wewnętrzna). According to his family,[citation needed] he found conditions there uncongenial and requested transfer to the Military Historical Institute (Wojskowy Instytut Historyczny) in Warsaw.
Kozaczuk had earned a degree in Polish philology in 1956 at Warsaw University. In 1978 he received a doctorate in history at Poland's Military Political Academy (Wojskowa Akademia Polityczna).
As a historian, Kozaczuk indignantly refuted Cold-War-inspired allegations in the anticommunistParis-based Polish-language periodical Kultura that his books were actually works of collective authorship that were merely published under his name.
Kozaczuk was the first to reveal (in his book, Bitwa o tajemnice, Battle for Secrets, 1967) that the German Enigma-machinecipher had been broken before World War II by Polish cryptologists. After France's Gustave Bertrand gave further details of prewar and wartime Franco-Polish collaboration on Enigma, and after the cipher's momentous wartime breaking achieved worldwide notoriety with F.W. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret, Kozaczuk participated in international conferences devoted to World War IImilitary intelligence and Enigmadecryption. After the publication of his 1984 English-language book, Enigma, he visited the United States on a publicity tour.
In his later years, Kozaczuk devoted much attention to setting up and operating a publishing firm in Warsaw. In the course of these activities, he was set upon, robbed and beaten; thereafter, according to his family, he was never again quite the same. Aside from his history books and articles, Kozaczuk published some poems. Kozaczuk was decorated with the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. He died in Warsaw, Poland, three months short of age 80, on 26 September 2003. He had been pre-deceased by his wife, a retired teacher, and left a daughter and stepdaughter.
He is perhaps best known outside Poland for the 1984 English-language book, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek. The volume incorporates much additional documentation, most notably appendices by Marian Rejewski, beyond what had appeared in the Polish-language W kręgu Enigmy (1979). The 1984 Enigma has been described as "the Bible" on the Polish aspects of the history of Enigma-cipher decryption.[1] It was reviewed by Stuart Milner-Barry in 1986.[2]
The 1984 Enigma should not be confused with a slighter volume published twenty years later: Władysław Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak, Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code. The 2004 Enigma is largely an abridgment of the 1984 book, with Marian Rejewski's appendices replaced with contributions by other authors, of uneven quality and, for the most part, comparatively little importance. The 2004 book does present some photographs that appear not to have been published previously; one, showing Henryk Zygalski with his parents and sister, is mis-captioned as being of "Maksymilian Ciężki."
^Zdzisław Jan Kapera, in Appendix F to Władysław Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak, Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code, pp. 135-36.
^P.S. Milner-Barry, The International History Review, vol. 8, no. 1 (February 1986), pp. 144–47. JSTOR40105581
References
Kozaczuk, Władysław (1984), Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two, edited and translated by Christopher Kasparek (2nd ed.), Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, ISBN978-0-89093-547-7
Zdzisław Jan Kapera, Appendix F to Władysław Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak, Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code, New York, Hippocrene Books, 2004, ISBN0-7818-0941-X.
Czesław Szafran, "Płk dr Władysław Kozaczuk" ("Col. Dr. Władysław Kozaczuk"), Przegląd Historyczno-Wojskowy (Military History Review), no. 201, Warsaw, 2004.