provide this assistance. They can share how to negotiate salaries, ask for a bonus, and address sexual harassment. Women in the oil and gas industry have come a long way since the days of Mrs. Furniss’s “exploits,” but there are still challenges to be faced and obstacles to overcome. Doing so won’t be easy, but it can be done. We know it can be done because of the role models highlighted in Ponton’s book. K. Denise Rucker Krepp Washington, DC Note: Denise Krepp is a former Maritime Administration Chief Counsel and former Coast Guard officer. She is a trustee of the National Maritime Historical Society. Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France by Peter CaddickAdams (Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, 1025pp, illus, appen, notes, biblio, index, isbn 978-0-19-060189-8; $34.95hc) The D-Day invasion has been the subject of scores of books and will continue to be for as long as mankind examines events
of the past. Sand and Steel by Peter CaddickAdams is perhaps the latest tome to join the legion of D-Day studies. At three pounds and nine ounces, it is one of those successful examples where quantity and quality are achieved in a single book. It is a beautiful work by any measure, and the quality of the writing is excellent. Some D-Day studies are narrative histories that lay out what happened, step by step. Others are anecdotal and tell the story through the recollections of those who participated. Others analyze each phase of the invasion with an eye to separating truth from fiction and revealing what might have happened had one event or another developed differently. In Sand and Steel, Caddick-Adams combines these approaches in one fetching and far-reaching work. Authors usually have a point of view they want to support: the Allied success at Normandy was fantastic or the Germans overcome by the Allies were the best soldiers with the finest equipment and leadership known to man or only good luck for the Allies, who were out-classed, kept them from being pushed into the sea. The Caddick-Adams approach
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Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization in the 1970s. Similar paths were forged by individuals in Australia (Eve Howell), Kuwait (Sara Akbar), England (Ann Cairns), and Nigeria (Dr. Amy Jadesimi). The common thread to their stories is that each of them not only overcame obstacles in their way, but that they opened doors so that others may follow. But opening doors isn’t enough. To quote Marie-Jose Nadeau,“[w]e cannot create leaders unless the pipeline is full.” Ponton’s book helps fill the pipeline. It should be shared with students at the US Coast Guard Academy, the US Merchant Marine Academy, the six state maritime academies in the United States, and at similar schools around the world. It will help a job-searching 18-year-old woman realize that careers exist in oil and gas, and that people who look like her are already working in the industry. Filling the pipeline also includes mentoring the next generation, providing midcareer advice and nominations for C-suite opportunities. Ponton’s book is a rolodex of role models that can be called upon to
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