
- 300 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Chamber Divers
About this book
'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John Volanthen, author of Thirteen Lives.
The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever.
On the beaches of Normandy, two summers before D-Day, the Allies attempted an all but forgotten landing. Of the nearly seven thousand Allied troops sent ashore, only a few hundred survived the terrible massacre, and the reason for the debacle was a lack of reconnaissance. The shore turned out to be impassable to tanks. The Nazis had hidden obstacles in unexpected places. The fortifications were more numerous – and deadly – than imagined. The Allies knew they needed to take the fight to Hitler on the European mainland to end the war, but they could not afford to be unprepared again. A small group of eccentric researchers, experimenting on themselves from inside pressure tanks in the middle of the London air raids, explored the deadly science needed to enable the critical reconnaissance vessels and underwater breathing apparatuses that would enable the Allies' dramatic, history-making success during the next major beach landing: D-Day.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Rachel Lance
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: “A Piece of Cake”
- Chapter 1: Professor Haldane and Dr. Spurway’s Problem
- Chapter 2: Brooklyn Bridge of Death
- Chapter 3: Devil’s Bubbles
- Chapter 4: Subsunk
- Chapter 5: Love, Cooking, and Communism
- Chapter 6: Drunk and Doing Math
- Chapter 7: Everyday Poisonous Gases
- Chapter 8: The Blitz
- Chapter 9: The Piggery
- Chapter 10: The Littlest Pig
- Chapter 11: Lung Maps
- Chapter 12: Nerves
- Chapter 13: The Inevitable Solution
- Chapter 14: The Midget Subs
- Chapter 15: Airs of Overlord
- Chapter 16: The Operations
- Chapter 17: The Longest Days
- Chapter 18: The Unremembered
- Acknowledgments
- Footnotes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index
- Also by Rachel Lance
- About the Author
- Copyright
- About the Publisher