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Volumes

  1. Vol 1 Enigma — Volume 1 — The Machine That Lost a War What Enigma was, the stakes it carried, and why a typewriter-sized box still matters — the orientation volume for the fifteen-part series
  2. Vol 2 Enigma — Volume 2 — Origins: Scherbius and the Rotor-Machine Era How a Berlin engineer, three rival inventors, and a wheel that rewired itself gave the twentieth century its defining cipher
  3. Vol 3 Enigma — Volume 3 — How Enigma Works I: The Rotor Cipher Following a single spark on its round trip through the scrambler
  4. Vol 4 Enigma — Volume 4 — How Enigma Works II: Plugboard, Keys & Procedures The patch panel, the printed key, and the human drill that wrapped the rotors
  5. Vol 5 Enigma — Volume 5 — The Combinatorics: Why They Thought It Unbreakable Counting to 159 quintillion — and learning that the count was the wrong thing to trust
  6. Vol 6 Enigma — Volume 6 — The Military Enigmas One family, many machines: how a single design splintered into the ciphers of a war
  7. Vol 7 Enigma — Volume 7 — The First Break: The Polish Cipher Bureau How three young mathematicians in Warsaw read a machine they had never seen
  8. Vol 8 Enigma — Volume 8 — The Handover: Pyry Forest, 1939 A secret given away on the edge of catastrophe
  9. Vol 9 Enigma — Volume 9 — Bletchley Park How a Victorian mansion became a code-breaking factory
  10. Vol 10 Enigma — Volume 10 — Turing and the Bombe How a machine was taught to reason about another machine
  11. Vol 11 Enigma — Volume 11 — Breaking Naval Enigma & the Battle of the Atlantic The cat-and-mouse beneath the convoys, and the men who drowned for a codebook
  12. Vol 12 Enigma — Volume 12 — Ultra: Using the Secret Knowing the enemy's plans, and the harder art of not letting him know you knew
  13. Vol 13 Enigma — Volume 13 — Legacy & Lessons for Modern Cryptography From a broken machine to the science of secrecy — and the birth of the computer
  14. Vol 14 Enigma — Volume 14 — Surviving Machines, Museums & Pop Culture Where the secret weapon lives now — glass cases, auction floors, and the popular imagination
  15. Vol 15 Enigma — Volume 15 — The Open Enigma: Building the Replica Fourteen volumes of theory, switched on and glowing on your own desk