Then came a sight never to be forgotten. There were aircraft and gliders as far as the eye could see. Below, on the sea, was a seemingly endless stream of ships, all heading the same way... It was June 1944 - Operation 'Overlord' - and the author was in the thick of it. He was a flight engineer on board a Stirling bomber, towing a glider loaded with troops, a jeep and a 75 mm gun to Normandy. D-Day was followed by flight after flight into the battle zone at Arnhem, where Malcolm Mitchell and his fellow airmen faced fighter attacks and ack-ack fire to resupply our beleaguered men on the ground. Here, in Out of the Darkness, he recalls the fatigue, the fear and the exhilaration of operations throughout Europe, with a wonderful eye for detail and a keen sense of the political undertones to warfare. His courage and endurance, and that of colleagues like Ray Isaacson and 'Fingers' Alderson, enabled resistance groups to keep going in occupied territory, and made sure our own forces maintained the fight against the enemies of freedom.