Chamber divers : the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever
(2024)
By:
Lance, Rachel
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.5451/LANCE,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Dutton, [2024]
©2024
©2024
DESCRIPTION
438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780593184936, 0593184939 :, 0593184939, 9780593184936
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: "A piece of cake" -- Professor Haldane and Dr. Spurway's problem -- Brooklyn Bridge of death -- Devil's bubbles -- Subsunk -- Love, cooking, and communism -- Drunk and doing math -- Everyday poisonous gases -- The blitz -- The piggery -- The littlest pig -- Lung maps -- Nerves -- The inevitable solution -- The midget subs -- Airs of Overlord -- The operations -- The longest days -- The unremembered
"This is a previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers-men and women-who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success"--