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Rudy Worth, a young American aeronautical engineer, is assigned to assist what's left of England's Royal Air Force as it gets ready to defend the vital Mediterranean island of Malta in 1939. Invasion of the tiny island by both Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy are imminent.

For Rudy and the rest of the RAF, thousands of lives are on the line. But in war, nothing is ever as it seems. . .