In a locked steel cabinet in a Bomber Command office was asecret file which grew thicker every week. Recorded in that document was a baffling tale of mystery —an amazing list of British bombers which had vanished without a trace over the Italian Alps. What had happened to them? Among those icy peaks there were […]
Operation Crusader was the first action Sergeant Jake Watson had seen since the shambles of the Battle of France. Nothing could have prepared him for it. Under the baking desert sun, there was nowhere to hide from the deadly Stuka dive-bombers as they rained death from above, or the enemy Panzers which seemed to sniff […]
Clive Harrison seemed to be a good bloke to have in your platoon. When the going got tough, he never faltered —and on several occasions it was his quick thinking that saved the day. Why then, if he was such a good soldier, would he suddenly run out on his mates? Story: CG Walker […]
In the Great War, the sprawling wasteland between the trenches was called no man’s land, a place of desolation that no warm‑blooded man wished to cross. For there was something lurking out there in that barren wilderness, howling in the night, screams echoing against the dead trees —something that made brave soldiers cling tight to […]
The Nazis defending the town of Gelsenfeld reckoned they were sitting pretty. A treacherous swamp round one side of the town forced the Allies to advance from only one direction —and they had that direction covered by a line of machine‑gun nests. They boasted they could beat off any attack. But they didn’t know they […]
“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell.” There is a castle in the darkest reaches of Europe, with spires stabbing the sky. It has sat alone, waiting, dormant, not dead. Never dead. Now something awakens it… the unmistakable taste of fresh blood, something there is plenty of in war. It is up to a chosen few to […]
During the First World War, French air ace Michel Bouchard and his dove emblem became famous in the skies, above France. He and his fellow pilots fought long and hard until the enemy had been driven from their country. But by 1940, Michel was long gone from the skies though the enemy were back in […]
Peter Ford and Rahul Bose were masters of the skies in their Hurricanes. Meeting in the Battle of Britain, then flying raids together over France, there were no wingmen like them. But sadly, the war had different fates for each, sending Peter to North Africa and Rahul back to India. However, it wouldn’t take long […]
A major general and three brigadiers —that’s enough top brass to keep four regiments polishing their buttons for months. Normally you don’t find officers of that rank anywhere near the front line, but once in the North African Desert, these four VIPs ventured forth —and soon found themselves stranded with Germans all around. Their escape […]
Everyone thought Billy Cooper was tied to his mother’s apron strings. She wouldn’t let him evacuate the island in 1940, enlist in the British Army, join the island’s resistance, or talk back to the Nazi occupiers. No wonder people thought he was a wet blanket! But everything changed for Billy when an injured commando washed […]
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