Turbulence

Giles Foden

RRP: £16.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 04/06/2009

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

From the prize-winning author of "The Last King Of Scotland", blending fact and fiction. The D-Day landings depend on accurate weather predictions, but can the weather be predicted so far in advance? Only one man, Wallace Ryman, has developed a system, but he is a pacifist and refuses to divulge the secret. Mark Latchford is sent to Scotland to try and find out the secret in time for the Normandy landings, but events - and the weather - begin to spiral out of control. For fans of "Enigma" and "Charlotte Gray".

Publisher's description:

A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing on an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics?

ISBN: 9780571205226