Trial and Tribulation

Name: Trial and Tribulation
Rating: 4.6 (960 reviews)

by John Rhodes Book 2 in the Breaking Point series.

First published 2023

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In 1943, the Allied bomber offensive against Germany has become a central instrument of the war. Eleanor Shaux is ordered to help identify targets capable of weakening the German economy, forcing her through Anglo-American rivalries, military bureaucracy and institutions that resist the authority of a woman analyst. Johnnie Shaux works on methods intended to improve the effectiveness and survival of bomber operations while continuing to fly in an air war with exceptionally high casualty rates.

The work that gives both of them influence also makes them complicit in destruction on an unprecedented scale. Johnnie’s experience in combat deepens his doubts about treating every enemy as a legitimate target, while Eleanor must reconcile strategic calculations with the civilian consequences of area bombing. Their estrangement becomes inseparable from these moral conflicts when Johnnie undertakes a dangerous mission that Eleanor helped to recommend.