Have a look at how these two aircraft — one British — one Soviet — match up: HAWKER SEA FURY ENGINE: 2470hp piston engine SPEED: 460mph ARMAMENT: 4x20mm cannon MIG15 ENGINE: 2700kg thrust turbojet SPEED: 680mph ARMAMENT: 1x37mm machine gun 2x23mm machine guns Which one do you think would come out on top in a […]
In the skies over Vietnam, the American and North Vietnamese fought for supremacy day after day. When expert tactician Major John Gardener was given command of the crack Cougar Squadron, he thought his great planning skills would make all the difference. But he was to quickly find out that tactics on the ground did not […]
Dawn broke over the sandy wastes of the North African desert, and the air shuddered with the roar of engines as one by one the sleek Martin Marauder bombers swept into the air. Each plane was loaded with nearly two tons of bombs, and they were crewed by some of the crack pilots of Bomber […]
“A splinter of metal is lodged in your heart. If it moves, you will die.” These words struck Flight Lieutenant Jack Hammond like a hammer blow. His immediate thought was to lie still, keep quiet, not move. But then he reasoned — if I’ve got to go, I might as well go out fighting! It […]
You needed lots of courage to fly over enemy territory in a small, unarmed aircraft, and even more to actually land on such dangerous ground. Yet that’s what the pilots of these Westland Lysanders did as they went about their vital task of ferrying secret agents into and out of occupied France. And for one […]
France, 1940. John Hanson, a cook in the British Army, is out in the field delivering breakfast — bullets with a side of bacon. All Hanson wants to do is make better meals for the men, so he spends his spare time scrounging up ingredients from anywhere he can get them. But while out hunting […]
Lieutenant Ken Miller and Sergeant Bill Blunden had a most important mission — to give the Germans as much information about the Allied invasion of Europe as possible. Heading into enemy-occupied France on a foggy night in May 1944, the pair had a date with danger to keep. How could they know what lay ahead? […]
Egypt, 1942. Military Police Captain Henry Howard has a murdered prisoner on his hands and thinks he’s heard of just the man to help him solve the mystery — but the enemy is almost upon them! With tanks rolling towards the Allied lines, he and Havildar Tejas Singh dodge bullets and race against the clock […]
Dedicated, tough, and invincible — that was the “Special Squad”. Made up of the elite of the British forces, this band of heroes worked behind enemy lines striking at the heart of the foe. Mark Butcher was their latest recruit. Young, strong, and cool-headed, he had one skill the others didn’t have, a knowledge of […]
One morning in autumn, 1944, the fishing boat Serenity set out to sea from Trinidad never to return. Instead, Serenity’s crew are taken hostage by a deadly gang of Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy sailors with one thing on their minds — digging up their stolen gold and fleeing the war to Venezuela. But Serenity is not […]
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