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The Chamber Divers, by Rachel Lance, PhD ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Rachel Lance, the biomedical engineer who authored the first book I reviewed here at Will o'the Glen on Books : In The Waves , about the fate of the Confederate States submarine CSS Hunley and its crew after the sinking of the USS Housatonic in Charleston Harbor on February 17th, 1864; is back with another deeply researched scientific thriller: The Chamber Divers .      The Chamber Divers , by In The Waves  author Rachel Lance is a       true-life scientific  thriller that the reader will find is hard to put down. In The Chamber Divers Dr Lance has jumped forward in time 70+ years from the time of the Hunley to one of the most critical periods in modern history, the Second World War, bringing to light the efforts of a dedicated group of scientists who put their own bodies on the line in support of the Allied effort to conquer fascism. The Chamber Divers draws the reader in with a prologue chapter about the ill-fated Dieppe raid, an infamously failed landing at the French resort t