Breaking Point

The Breaking Point series follows RAF fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux and mathematician-turned-military analyst Eleanor Rand, later Eleanor Shaux, through the successive years of the Second World War. Johnnie experiences the conflict from cockpits, airfields and operational units, while Eleanor works in headquarters where intelligence, logistics and strategy determine how men, aircraft and weapons will be used.

Across six novels, their relationship develops under prolonged separation, danger and moral pressure as the war moves from the Battle of Britain and the siege of Malta to the bomber offensive, Normandy, the V-weapons campaign, the Ardennes and the Manhattan Project. By placing fictional protagonists beside documented commanders and political leaders, the series connects individual combat with the decisions made behind it and repeatedly questions the human cost of total war.