Return To Normandy

by John R. Taylor

June 6th, 2014, the 70th anniversary of D-Day. A platoon of American paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade jumps into Normandy to commemorate the historic WWII airborne assault. In the blink of an eye, the bright, sunny day astonishingly turns to night. They become helpless targets for small arm and machine gun fire as they descend. Platoon Leader Spike Wilson is thunderstruck. Is this a nightmare? Some sort of delusional hallucination? Wilson has a prophetic revelation that stuns him. A rift in the space-time continuum forced them from the present-day time dimension back into the actual D-Day Invasion. How? Why? Will their actions change the future? Will they ever return to 2014? These are the dilemmas the time-traveling platoon face as they fight to stay alive long enough on the battlefield to find their way home.

320 pages, Paperback

Published March 23, 2017

About the author

John Taylor is Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He took his B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied the theory of elementary particles. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge and London in England, and at Princeton. and Colorado in the U.S. He first came to Colorado in 1966. Since then he has won five university and departmental teaching awards. He is the author of three text books: a graduate text on quantum scattering theory; an undergraduate text on error analysis, which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Spanish; and an undergraduate

text on modem physics. The second edition of the book on error analysis appeared in 1997. His research interests include quantum scattering theory and the foundations of quantum theory, and he has published some fifty articles in journals such as the Physical Review and the Journal of Mathematical Physics. For several years he was Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics.
For the past eighteen years he has given his "Mr. Wizard" shows to some 60,000 children on the Boulder campus and in many towns in Colorado. He received an Emmy Award for his television series "Physics for Fun", which aired on KCNC TV in 1988 -1990. In 1989 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation of the American Association of Physics Teachers. In the same year, he won one of eleven Gold Medals in the national "Professor of the Year" program and was named Colorado Professor of the Year. In 1998, at the invitation of the International Science Festival in Dunedin, he toured New Zealand and gave IS "Mr. Wizard" shows in various museums and colleges.