After he was wounded on a raid, they told Major Jeff Turner he wasn’t fit to fight with the Special Air Service any more. So he was transferred from the heroes who wore the winged dagger badge on their berets to command a unit that acted as a firefighting detail! These men were just a […]
The Second World War was complex in the Baltic states as Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia found themselves caught between the Soviet and Nazi war machines. Annexed by the rise of Communism, by 1941, large swaths of Latvian men enlisted in the Wehrmacht, mistakenly believing the Germans would liberate them from their Soviet invaders. Among the […]
Writer and anarchist, Dominik Zatopek, had lofty ambitions for a free nation for Czechs and Slovaks. But in 1914, under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czechs were unwillingly forced to fight in the First World War as part of the Triple Alliance. But when Dominik is captured by the enemy, he is given […]
It was a bad day for the Nazis when a German fighter pilot shot down an Allied transport plane behind the German lines in Italy. For in that plane, heading for prison, was a collection of the biggest crooks and cut-throats in the British Army. And the man in charge of them, Military Police Sergeant […]
It was 1918, and in the cold dead of the night over the trenches, German troopers crawled across the muddy, blood-soaked landscape. For Feldwebel Kurt Woden and Unteroffizer Johann Aachen it was just another night raid on British lines, but for Leutnant Erwin Horch it was his first terrifying mission… Then, The Great War ended […]
By 1943, the victorious days of Operation Barbarossa were over. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union had stalled and the Germans were barely holding out against the cold might of the Red Army. But the furious Nazi eagle still had a few tricks left in its arsenal before it would be defeated… its claw […]
Racked with pain and half conscious, the corporal wasn’t sure if he was dreaming or not as four British soldiers drifted through the dawn mist straight into a ferocious artillery barrage… to re-emerge unscathed. Blinking again, he saw their deathly faces peering down at him and listened in horror as they began their chilling tale, […]
Lieutenant Phil Searle was used to danger. Ever since the beginning of the Second World War, he’d been called upon to use his skill to render dangerous bombs and mines harmless. Most types he could handle now with his eyes shut. It took a lot to startle Phil. Yet he nearly died of shock when […]
Captain Mario Celini’s unit had been treated like dirt by the Germans, even though they were the so-called friends of the Italians. Lives had been lost, others put at risk. But Mario and his men were not the type to forget – or forgive. And, with the help of a British officer on special duties, […]
Private Harry Clark was a respected member of the Fenshire Regiment. Although he was a member of the elite class, he turned down a commission in order to serve among the ranks of the ordinary men, and his best mate, Joe Reagan. Their platoon leader, Lieutenant Adrian Seacombe, on the other hand, cared about one […]
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