Pressure
Nerds win the war in Pressure, which entertainingly tells the story about the meteorological johnnies who made the D-Day landings possible. How, when you’re launching the biggest seaborne invading force in human history, do you make sure the weather isn’t going to destroy your armada on the high seas? Whether the gap between England and France actually counts as the high seas is questionable. It’s only a 20-mile gap but it is difficult to navigate at the best of times. All that Atlantic Ocean on one side and North Sea on the other trying to squeeze through a bottleneck, with storms liable to barrel in from off the Atlantic at any time. That’s … Read more