Who believes in magic? Does anyone nowadays? In olden days the air was thick with tales of strange wonders… magic swords, magic horses, magic armour. This story is about modern warfare, but it is also about a giant axe handed down from those far-off times. Perhaps when you have read it you will know that […]
Known as Operation Folklore, the Air Ministry knew they had to box clever if they wanted to beat the invading Argentinians out of the Falkland Islands. Flying a Canberra under Chilean colours, they would recon the enemy without arousing suspicion. But when the pair operating the aircraft is a reckless, young RAF pilot and the […]
Jeff Parker was hailed a hero by the recruits in his new platoon. They’d heard that he’d been injured on D-Day, so they reckoned he knew all about fighting. The truth was that he’d never even reached the beaches —he’d hurt himself on the way. But hero they called him and hero he was going […]
What good is a claustrophobic miner? That was exactly what Charlie Newlands was after the accident. He worked to support his family, but he couldn’t bear to be in the damp pit one second longer than he had to. Luckily, in 1914, there were plenty of men needed so Charlie enlisted, hoping never again to […]
On and on, over the endless desert wastes went the thirteen desperate Nazis and their two prisoners, Lieutenant Steve Roland and Brigadier Alan Warren. Normally, a German patrol with two captive British officers would have made for their HQ at top speed. But not these Germans! Neither Steve nor Warren had the slightest idea […]
“War can bring out the very best in people. But it can also bring out the worst. Once the genie’s out of the bottle, some men can never push it back in.” Sergeant Tom Smit did his duty in the Vietnam War, and died for it. Now, his replacement is drunk on his own bloodthirst, […]
The war in the Western Desert was a game of cat and mouse, with each side desperately trying to find out what the other was planning. When the Germans seemed to be gaining the upper hand, it was up to British Intelligence and a very cunning agent to set the balance right. Story: CG […]
In the whole British Army there was no truck driver as dashing or daring as Corporal Bill Bragg… that’s what all Bill Bragg’s men believed. But one day, when Bill was driving flat out, he heard a truck horn behind him blare out an angry request to pass. At the wheel of the pursuing truck […]
Captain Archibald Rankin had been on the front line of the Great War for two years. He was a no-nonsense officer type who wanted nothing more than to get his men through alive. So why when he asked for reinforcements to his beleaguered line, did they send him men armed with paint brushes and scenery, […]
Frank Regan was British through and through, so when war broke out, he immediately wanted to join up. The snag was, he was in a South American ranch many thousands of miles away. But he needn’t have worried. Before he could go to war, war came to him —complete with a U-boat full of enemy […]
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