Forecast for D-Day: And the Weatherman Behind Ike's Greatest Gamble

by John Ross

Book Overview

Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe. Yet the fine weather leading up to the greatest invasion the world would ever see was deteriorating rapidly. Would it hold long enough for the bombers, the massed armada, and the soldiers to secure beachheads in Normandy? That was the question, and it was up to Ike's chief meteorologist, James Martin Stagg, to give him the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762786639
• ISBN13: 9780762786633
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"