Józef Garliński

Józef Garliński (14 October 1913 - 29 November 2005) was a Polish historian and prose writer.

He was a survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp and wrote books on the history of World War II, some of which were translated into English.

He was arrested in April 1943 by the Germans and imprisoned in Pawiak prison, and later transferred to Auschwitz and then to Neuengamme concentration camps.

For a time he worked as an estate agent and an insurance salesman while researching and writing a number of books, many of them about Polish World War II history, such as Poland, SOE and the Allies (1969), particularly after his retirement when he completed doctoral studies in history at the International London School of Economics and Political Science.

His other works include Hitler's Last Weapons (1978) about the German V-weapons, Intercept (1979) on the wartime intelligence services, The Swiss Corridor (1981) about espionage in wartime Switzerland, and the more general history, Poland in the Second World War (1985).