Wartime Romance

For Love and Glory opens in 1940 as Lange DeLony, a civilian pilot working for a crop-duster company in south Texas, is down on his luck—no car, no money saved, and his estranged wife has just been killed in a car accident.

With his self-esteem at low tide, he reads in a local newspaper that the British military is recruiting American pilots to fight and fly in the Royal Air Force. Since the United States has not yet entered the war, Lange decides to join the RAF. He needs a fresh start, to find his purpose, to regain his own self-worth, and, not least, to earn his father’s approval.

He is posted to a fighter squadron east of London. On the train headed to report to his post, he meets a Canadian ferry pilot, a woman named Allison “Mackie” MacLeod. What begins as a hasty wartime romance turns into an intense love affair. With the constant danger from the war, they begin a life together and start a family.

Once the United States enters the fighting, the danger intensifies, and each fighter mission becomes more treacherous than the last one. Lange’s single, all-consuming desire is to survive the war and get back to Mackie and their future together.