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The Somme Protocol: A Secret History of WWI, Where the War Was Won on Calories, Copper, and the Men Who Could Bend Probability

The Somme Protocol: A Secret History of WWI, Where the War Was Won on Calories, Copper, and the Men Who Could Bend Probability

Wang, Carl

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798187273515
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
We won the Great War on biscuits, pennies, and math. Then we burned the receipts.

1916. The British Army is bleeding men at the Somme. But in a sealed ward in London, Captain Elias Vance discovers a new kind of weapon:

5,800 calories per day. 3kg of copper. A man who can count.

They called it the Talent Corps.

By feeding starving mathematicians enough food to kill a normal man, and wiring them with copper, the War Office found they could bend probability. Make coins land wrong. Make shells hit true. Make bridges hold just long enough.

The cost: 311 men in, zero men out.

THE SOMME PROTOCOL is the secret history of WWI's most classified program - where quartermasters were king, spreadsheets were lethal, and victory was measured in calories instead of bodies.

From Vimy Ridge to the Armistice at 11:00, follow the men who traded their lives for minutes, their sanity for percentages, and their souls for a war that ended on time... but not by accident.

And in 1944, on Tinian Island, a USAF officer finds the file.

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