A story of a tragedy that might have been but thankfully wasn't, from the author of Femarine. In 1940, the sky above the English Channel was a battlefield. 'The few' were the heartbreakingly-young fighter pilots on the Allied side, not all of whom were British. Many were the bombs which fell, not all of them on target - a rain of bombs which sank into semi-retirement on the quiet seabed. When the Channel Tunnel was dug under those sleeping dogs they continued to lie, but at the opening of the tunnel, a terrorist bomb unleashed them with a vengeance, and the few became those who were now trapped, with the whole English Channel about to rain in on them. Water will fall.