Flying officer Hugh Fleming is shot down and badly burned during the battle of Britain in September 1940.
Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrap-yard business. He soon becomes a much-respected "Squire" who is determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor. Written by Martin Underwood <imdb@martinunderwood.f9.co.uk>
As WWII looms in Europe, an ambitious young English lawyer embarks on his tempestuous career-and even stormier romantic life.
A minor Soviet official, on secondment in London, begins to break the rules in the hope of being sent back to Russia, and becomes entangled emotionally with a young woman whom he accompanies to a society wedding.