London, 1942. Flight-lieutenant David Heron, home on convalescent leave, awakes to find a murder victim in the garden of his boarding house. With a week until his service resumes, Heron os drawn into a world of mystery and double-dealing. Can he solve the mystery before he returns to the skies?

January 1944 on the sotuh coast of England and the Fifth Battalion, Wessex Regiment are waiting nervously for the order to embark to Normandy. This book is a vivid and moving acconunt of the fate of these men as they advance into France and the Battalion suffers devestating casulaties.

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the overbearing Acting-Captain Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare.

Autumn 1943. Realising his feeling for his sweetheart are not reciprocated, Major John Overton accepts a posting behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied Albania. As he struggles to complete his mission amidst a chaotic backdrop, Overton is left to ruminate on loyalty, comreadeship and the futility of war.