Turbulence

Die Landung der Alliierten in der Normandie, 6. Juni 1944: Das Schicksal Europas hängt von den richtigen Wetterverhältnissen am Englischen Kanal an einem einzigen Tag ab. Ein Team alliierter Wissenschaftler soll sich auf eine akkurate 5-Tage-Vorhersage einigen - doch ist dies überhaupt technisch möglich? Und welchen Einfluß hat die Turbulenz, eine der letzten großen Mysterien der modernen Physik? Allein Wallace Ryman hat ein intelligentes System dafür erfunden, doch der sture Pazifist gibt sein Geheimnis nicht frei. Da wird das junge Mathe-Genie Henry Meadows nach Schottland gesandt, um Rymans System zu enthüllen. Doch bald geraten die Ereignisse - wie das Wetter - außer Kontrolle ...

Informationen zum Autor Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as a journalist on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland ! which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of two other novels and also a work of narrative non-fiction! in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He lives in Norfolk. Klappentext 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". Turbulence , from Giles Foden - prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland - is a gripping blend of fact and fiction in a novel about the D-Day landings. Zusammenfassung The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men! 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day.

Vorwort
Turbulence, from Giles Foden - prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland - is a gripping blend of fact and fiction in a novel about the D-Day landings.

Autorentext
Giles Foden was born in 1967 and spent his youth in Africa. Between 1990 and 2006 he worked as a journalist on the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. In 1998 he published The Last King of Scotland, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was later made into a feature film. The author of two other novels and also a work of narrative non-fiction, in 2007 he was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He lives in Norfolk.

Klappentext
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".


Zusammenfassung
The D-day landings - the fate of 2.5 million men, 3000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions on the English Channel on a single day.

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