Publisher's Synopsis
Each dawn, from scores of bomber bases in Suffolk, thousands of American airmen take off to strike Germany's industrial war machine. Each dusk, hundreds fail to return. For the villagers of Bedenham, the American invasion brings upheaval, uncertainty and unease. Lt. John Hooper, assigned an unlucky Flying Fortress and its demoralised crew, leads them through the nightmare autumn of 1943, but his friendship with Heather, awaiting word of a husband missing for 18 months, brings hostility from a suspicious village. Yet the growing bond between them is their only reality in an unreal world and cannot be denied...
