This was a really fun reading; Enigma is one of the things that legends are made from. There were so many neat stories in the reading, like the enigma technician who encrypted all of his messages with his girlfriend's name, the German Admiral who wrote to High Command with his suspicions that Enigma was not secure, and who modified his enigma machines so that the Allieds were unable for years to crack his fleet's messages, even though the German Army and Air Force had completely transparent communications as far as the English were concerned. The one paper said that the Bombe machines that cracked Enigma were named that because the Polish mathematician who came up with the idea was eating a "bomba" when he thought about it, a Polish ice-cream-like dessert.
The book describes how the front panel, three rotors and reflecting panels work together, and it isn't really all that hard to understand.
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