A socialite, nurse, and driver, Petra Stone wasn’t afraid of anything. Once she fixed her mind on something she put her foot straight down on the accelerator, racing ahead and leaving everyone else in her dust. When war broke out, finally she had a real challenge and a chance to prove herself. She didn’t know what […]
It takes all kinds of men to win a war — the daring devil‑may‑care types and the quieter, steadier types who make up the solid backbone of any successful army. Captain Mike Palmer was one of the steady types. He didn’t waste lives in needless heroics but he always got the job done. And when […]
Polish Sergeant Jakub Leszczuk is one of the last men defending Lwow in 1939, but as the Russian tanks roll in, his unit rescues a small puppy called Rebus from a collapsed building. It isn’t long before Rebus becomes far more than a lucky mascot for the escaping soldiers! As they retrain for the parachute […]
Eyes glazed by the desert sun, half-demented by thirst, the German Captain thought his last hours had come. Lost in the desert without transport, there was no hope for him or his men. Then… was it a mirage? No it was real — the robed figure striding over the dunes, face hidden in the shadow […]
To say paratroopers Callum Phillips and Heath Antwi didn’t like each other was an understatement. In fact, they hated each other’s guts! A bitter rivalry had formed between the two after a childish prank cost Heath a promotion and won it for Callum. A proud paratrooper, Callum thought he was ready for anything but he […]
To catch an enemy agent operating in Britain and known only by the codename “Leopard” — that was the task facing Captain Barry West, and he hadn’t had much success. Until now that is, for in Nazi‑occupied France the agent’s cover was about to be blown and his true identity revealed. But one problem still […]
Newly-qualified Flight Sergeant Owen Lewis was delivered to his new base inside the very plane he was about to serve in. The Lancaster was a beauty, and the crew welcomed Lewis with open arms — all except their bomb aimer, Burston, who had a chip on his shoulder bigger than the bombs he dropped over […]
Tom Barton was desperate to get into action, but the Army wouldn’t let him fight. They wanted him to do an office job, not get mixed up with the Nazis. Well, Tom wasn’t having that. Somehow, he would get into the thick of it. So he took another man’s place! But Tom wasn’t to know […]
“Prize rules” — the set of maritime laws which require a ship’s crew to send a boarding party to inspect any suspicious merchant vessels. If the merchant ship was found to be carrying cargo bound for the enemy, then the submarine was permitted to sink the vessel — after the merchant crew had been put […]
It was a crazy sight — an old Frenchman defying an enemy tank, his shotgun against its cannon and machine guns. Yet his courage did not earn him scorn but the respect and admiration of the German tank commander. Another Frenchman was also a brave fighter, but his courage did not come from any inner […]
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