From 1939 to 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Freygood overcomes anti-Semitism, anti-colonialism, innumerable encounters with the enemy, and the normal problems associated with coming of age.
From 1939 to 1945, Squadron Leader Peter Freygood overcomes anti-Semitism, anti-colonialism, innumerable encounters with the enemy, and the normal problems associated with coming of age. Book I describes his training first as a navigator and mechanic and only later as a pilot, his first encounters with the opposite sex, the initial raids on Germany, and the escape of the Allied armies from Dunkirk. II. A crash landing off the Isle of Guernsey leaves him with amnesia. He meets the girl he will later marry, only to forget her during a German air raid. Returning to England carrying a map of the German positions, he rejoins his squadron in time to help provide air cover during the Battle of Britain. III. Dropped into the foothills of the Pyrenees to help organize the French resistance, he is soon caught up in a trio of romantic entanglements before making his way across Vichy France. IV. Shot down by friendly fire while crossing the Channel on D-Day, then forgotten for weeks by RAF/RCAF bureaucracy, he finishes the last months of the war behind a desk. Sent to Guernsey to supervise transition to peacetime, he must determine the fate of accused war criminals and collaborators.