The target: three big guns in huge concrete bunkers surrounded by machine guns, barbed wire, and mines. They could cut the Allied invasion forces to shreds on the beaches unless they were spiked. The attackers: a bunch of raw soldiers barely out of school. Could the youngsters do it? You can bet they were going […]
As D-Day approaches, Sergeant Joe Shatner and Second Lieutenant Rick Levitt head the demolition section of a US Airborne company —a rough, tough bunch of renegades with a flair for fighting and no respect for the rules. But Normandy is a long way from training and the comfort of an English pub! Faced with a […]
Out of the sun it came, a jet‑black Zero with a large golden dragon on its side. And at the controls sat Captain Jirai Saito, a top ace who’d become king of the Pacific skies. He and his squadron had made their name by shooting down clumsy P-40 fighters, but the time for a showdown […]
Fresh-faced Lieutenant Chuck Kinley arrives in-country to greet his new team, only to be bitterly disappointed with his own performance! With rumours of his predecessors being fragged by their own men, NCOs playing by their own rules, and the Viet Cong taking advantage of Kinley’s naivety, Echo Company find themselves defending an old French outpost […]
Fred Gates had served in Burma during the Second World War and then Korea in the early 1950s. Now he was fighting an even more dangerous campaign in the guerrilla‑infested jungles of Malaya where every tree or bush could hide a killer. But these killers were about to find out what the Japanese and […]
Billy Joyner was the pilot of an L-4 Grasshopper scout plane, flying out over enemy territory to recon their positions. Only his Grasshopper had no radio and no weapons, which meant Billy had to fly back to base to make his reports. But by the time he got back, it was too late and the […]
High on a sand dune in the fierce heat of the African sun, Sergeant Bill Bradley and Major Otto Schmitt faced each other, armed with deadly swords. These were two men in a struggle so desperate that only one would walk away. The strutting German had no doubt who that would be. Hadn’t he been […]
The USS Pike is sunk, and survivors Lieutenant Jimmy Hart and his Commander, Ralph Hunter, are now in charge of the Thunderfish —a Tambor Class sub with a formidable reputation. But as they patrol the Pacific waters, Jimmy soon finds he has more problems than the Japanese on his hands! As rumours abound of the […]
The Allied invasion of France —and every patriotic Frenchman was dedicated to the task of throwing the Nazis out of his country. None more so than Jean le Brave, village teacher, museum curator and fanatical student of the campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte. He saw himself as a master tactician and he was determined to play […]
When war was declared in Europe in August 1914, thousands of miles away, an Australian rules football team called the Hollyvale Wattles was playing for the greatest prize of the year.Little did they know it would be the last match they’d ever play together as the next day all eighteen team members enlisted for The […]
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