IN CASE OF WAR BREAK GLASS

Did you ever want to know what it was like to fly a Hurricane or a Spitfire? Could you pull the trigger - the moment of truth - could you kill someone?

This story starts in the spring of 1940, with new pilots joining a Hurricane squadron in the weeks before the Battle of Britain. And one particular pilot, at home in one place and time, sitting on the line between courage and cowardice - a line that every man I’ve ever met, and the majority of the women, wonder which side they sit. Sometimes the aerial fights, survival stories and the pilot’s personal lives might seem exaggerated. They’re not - they didn’t need to be.