CHAMBER DIVERS The Untold Story of the D-Day Scientists Who Changed Special Operations Forever

With a stentorian delivery and an English accent, Alex Wyndham narrates this account of an overlooked aspect of the D-Day invasion. Beginning with the fiasco of the Dieppe Raid in 1942, Wyndham tells the story of how J.B.S. Haldane and Dr. Helen Spurway led a group of scientists to develop an underwater breathing apparatus and a miniature submarine for underwater reconnaissance purposes. The development involved carrying out dangerous, and even possibly fatal, experiments to learn how the human body reacts to various depths of water pressure. The author is a biomedical engineer, and she brings all the challenges and perils of this work to life. Wyndham's narration is a splendid match to the text, enlivening a small but very important aspect of WWII. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2025, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2025]