Rings of Fire: How an Unlikely Team of Scientists, Ex-Cons, Women, and Native Americans Helped Win World War II

"An epic story, filled with an unfolding array of evocatively described landscapes and sharply drawn, unforgettable people."

-Dayton Duncan, writer and producer for Ken Burns documentary films and author of fourteen books on American history and national parks

Edwin Land had barely settled into his seat on the plane when the flash went off. An idea for an innovative WWII technology that might help eradicate the fascist cancer devouring the free world. It was Polaroid's Optical Ring Sight, whi...