Who was the silent saboteur who struck swiftly and effectively against the German occupiers, and who proved as much of a headache to the carefully organised French Resistance as he did to the local Nazi officer? He was known as The Fox, but soon he would be tamed. His one-man war would become very different… […]
Monte Cassino. The bulwark of the Gustav line stopped the Allied Advance in its tracks. The fighting there saw some of the bloodiest clashes of the Second World War. But even in the white heat of battle, some engagements created their own mystique. One such was called “The Inferno Bowl”. This is the story of […]
Two Bren gunners who had never been to sea in their lives. They were soldiers not sailors. Yet they went to sea, fought the enemy at sea, were shipwrecked and taken prisoner at sea, and now found themselves working in the stokehold of a German-held ship, awaiting a bullet in the back from an Oberleutnant […]
Libya, 1942. Two unlucky blokes in one car were trying to escape the enemy advancing across the desert. Only this car was a converted Ford Station Wagon with Vickers machine guns and a Boys Anti-tank rifle — the enemy had never seen anything like it! Well, the news of this wild set of wheels started […]
According to legend, a brave knight in armour would come to help the people of the French village of Toulours whenever they were in trouble, as he had done centuries before. Now the peaceful little village echoed with the sound of invading troops with all their modern equipment —trucks, motorcycles, machine guns, mortars. Surely there […]
In the smoking ruins of his latest mission, SAS Major Elliot Slater finds an invitation to an exclusive party with a familiar host. Calling in favours from his SOE colleagues Hywel Williams and Pip Moresby, Slater’s new recruit, Lady Margaret Green, ensures they make the guest list. But with a secret coup, errant SS, and […]
As the German half-track hurtled towards the two men, Captain Peter Brookes grabbed the startled German officer and hauled him to safety. But who was driving the vehicle? Why did he want to kill his own countryman? It was a mystery that had started in France, continued in North Africa, and was now back in […]
In 3023, the world is at peace and there is no such thing as war. But there are those who seek to bring its violence back to the future by travelling to the past! The only thing standing in their way is a hapless private named Ron Cope fighting for his own life during the […]
With the stick pulled right back and the engine screaming, the plane missed the heads of the startled Germans by mere inches. For a day and a night this Fairley Swordfish had been grounded in hostile territory, all for the want of a piece of copper tubing and a soldering iron. And they still weren’t […]
In 1940, Erik Jacobsen and his father Harold worked on a fishing boat called “Agnetha”. Their life was peaceful until one day, it was spotted by a German Heinkel 111 hellbent on vengeance! For not long before, this Heinkel had been forced to crash-land after being shot up by a fishing boat named “Agatha”. Well, […]
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