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For readers of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Code Girls, who want stories about the tech behind military successes and the maverick groups that generate historic innovations This is the previously classified story of one group of scientific researchers - men and women - who exposed themselves to extraordinary risks to make D-Day a success.. 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.
About the Author
Rachel Lance was notoriously bad at playing with dolls as a child. Luckily, as she approached adulthood, she realized that her alternative hobby of disassembling and rebuilding things could actually form a valid career. She is now an injury biomechanist with a PhD in biomedical engineering, and she spends her days at the office studying the various ways that the machine of the human body can be injured or break down. Dr. Lance is an Assistant Consulting Professor at the Duke University Center for Hyperbaric Medicine & Environmental Physiology, where she researches the various ways that human beings are affected and injured by extreme environments.Rachel loves medical and scientific non-fiction literature, and she enjoys writing because it lets her share with other people the joy she finds in using science to answer questions about the world.
