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Four ordinary young men are thrown together as Hitler plunges Europe into its darkest hours. Their fates will be decided in the most cruel and extraordinary way. Andrew Francis and Gerry Donaldson were born on different sides of the Atlantic just before The Great War. Together with the mildly psychotic Bryan Hale, they fly Spitfires through the summer of 1940. Invasion is imminent and England faces almost certain defeat after Hitler’s unstoppable armies slice through France to the Channel coast. Fighter Command risks total destruction as they rise to meet the Fuhrer’s Luftwaffe hordes in what would become The Battle of Britain. Based on true stories and events, Melvyn Fickling’s impressive debut novel Bluebirds recasts Winston Churchill’s ‘Few’ in the darker shadow of their desperate times, fighting against terrifying odds with the ever-present expectation of violent, murderous death. Gerry, the first American to fire guns in anger against the Nazis, fights in spite of American isolationism, relinquishing his US citizenship and becoming a reluctant propaganda tool for the Air Ministry along the way. Newly-married Andrew fights to protect his pregnant wife. Bryan fights for the simple pleasure of the kill. Vincent Drew, broken by childhood abuse, tumbles into their world and tears it apart… The first in a series of historical novels, Bluebirds is meticulously researched and faithfully evokes the terrifying and often heart-rending experiences both in the air and on the ground during the crucial first year of the Second World War as Britain strove to keep the German wolves from the door. Praise for Melvyn Fickling ‘A truly gripping aviation adventure’ – Richard Foreman Melvyn Fickling was born in Wells-Next-The-Sea on the North Norfolk coast. He later moved to London and spent many years working variously in import and distribution, purchasing, company administration, interior design and project management. After developing skills in internet marketing and search-engine-optimisation, he took advantage of work-from-home technology and lived in the picturesque medieval town of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire. Melvyn returned to Wells-Next-The-Sea in early 2015 and completed his first novel, based on the life and times of a local war-hero. Besides continuing the series, Melvyn hopes to establish his own micro-brewery in the town in 2018.