Dangerous Skies

The Blitz. London 1941. Forgotten by their schools, left to fend for themselves by fathers at war and mothers overwhelmed, thousands of the city's children run wild in its rubble-filled streets. Tommy's older brother has gone AWOL and taken refuge in the attic. Wilkie's abusive, alcoholic father poses a threat of violence more real than anything a German bomber can do. Alan wakes to play among the bombsites and burned-out houses, haunted by nightmares of yesterday's horrors-and the fear of ...