He walked out of the empty desert one night, a man dressed in the ordinary uniform of an ordinary British corporal. But this was not an ordinary man. Strange things happened when he was around. He had powers that other men didn’t have. When he told Sergeant Dave Wilson his strange story, Dave had to […]
They called them the Coward Brigade, those who dared object to war. Counting their white feathers, they were the conscientious objectors, but they were everything but cowards. The Non-Combatant Corps faced every danger the Army did on the Western Front, with one exception — the NCC weren’t armed to defend themselves. They only had their […]
If ever a Spitfire in the RAF was special, this one was. No camouflage paint sullied its shining wings; no observer could fail to see it as it flashed across the sky. And yet it seemed that no Nazi plane could shoot it down as it claimed victim after victim. Its pilot, Tom Shaw, would […]
In 1915, Germany unleashed their first horrific gas attack on the war-torn landscape of Belgium. It was a devastating blow on the French and Algerian forces in Kitcheners’ Wood. Caught in the deadly cloud was young Canadian, Harry MacDonald, and his twin Tom. Watching his brother gasp for air, Harry fought within himself — should […]
To rescue a wounded British agent stranded on a Greek island in the Aegean sea — that was the mission of Motor Torpedo Boats 570 and 582. But when two Heinkel 115s suddenly appeared on the scene things began to look grim indeed for they obviously meant business. This was only the start of a […]
Bill Mitchell has always been a stubborn soul, so when he leaves the farm to join the RAAF, his father knows better than to stand in his way. But when a sinister Luftwaffe pilot shoots down his friend, Bill’s desire for vengeance makes him unpredictable and a danger to his crew. Story: Brent Towns […]
The scorching deserts of North Africa hold many an eerie secret in their ceaselessly shifting sands. As the winds move the dunes to and fro, whole villages vanish or are brought to the light of day again. Sometimes even whole cities are lost for hundreds of years — like the ruins that Luke Cope and […]
The British were the first nation to produce the hulking metal monoliths called tanks. And this one was a beast! Her name was Lydia, but she was a male configuration Mark IV Tank, tearing through the trenches of World War One. The driver, country bumpkin, Alf Hubbert, had a lesson to learn — that tanks […]
When the bullets start to fly a man needs to be very quick or very fortunate if he’s going to get out of the way. Peter Reed reckoned he was one of the fortunate ones — after all, the lucky charm he carried in his pocket had seen him safely through a lot of hard […]
Women in the French Resistance played a vital role in fighting back against their Nazi invaders. For many, the biggest role they could play was in sabotage… Michelle Peel was one such woman, and with a basket full of explosives and the help of some friends she would attempt to take down a vital Nazi […]
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