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Allies at War

Issue Number: 5717

They were once allies — Britain and France. The two nations’ men standing together, united against the Nazi threat. But everything changed when France was overrun, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the unthinkable — attack Mers-el-Kebir and sink the French Navy’s ships. Two men were caught in the middle — one British, one French. […]

The First Casualty

Issue Number: 5701

“THE FIRST CASUALTY WHEN WAR COMES, IS TRUTH.” When a young Englishman came asking about his dead father’s last days on the Western Front, the only person who could answer his questions was Havildar Jared Singh of the 19th Lancers. But what Singh had to say may not be welcome, and what the Englishman thought […]

Superfort!

Issue Number: 5608

The B-29 Superfortress was the heaviest aircraft of the Second World War. It was designed for high-altitude bombing and it carried a crew of a dozen men. So what the heck was this one doing dodging around over an enemy airfield at zero feet with only a couple of blokes on board? Well, this wasn’t […]

Escape from Java

Issue Number: 5511

Flight Sergeants Danny Blake and Greg Roberts had been in their Blenheim from the deserts of North Africa to the jungle dirt airstrips of Malaya. They were good at their jobs but the only thing that stood in their way was their skipper, Pilot Officer John Foden —a toff with little regard for his crew […]

Rifleman’s Revenge

Issue Number: 5495

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, 1813, Tom Hopper, Samuel Jones, and guerrilla leader Maria of Vitoria are part of Wellington’s army driving the French invaders back across Spain. When Marshal Soult counters the British advance at Sorauren, Hopper finds himself facing an old enemy — Captain Baptiste. A strategic confrontation becomes a private […]

Die — or Walk!

Issue Number: 5448

Along with his three mates, he had captured a swaggering and evil Nazi Colonel. Colonel Karl Oberth of the Panzer Corps wouldn’t forgive the insult of being forced to carry a miserable Britischer across the desert on his back. He would make every Tommy pay for their insolence. And so now, somewhere on the tumultuous, […]

Sands of Death

Issue Number: 5416

Lieutenant Harry Brent was a man with a mission.  He had been chosen by British Intelligence to go into the desert and convince the local tribesmen to fight alongside the British — and the bag of gold he carried would act as the perfect persuader. An easy task, you might think, but Harry was going […]

Common Foe

Issue Number: 5400

Strange things — very strange things — happen in the desert under the hot blazing sun which saps people’s strength and attacks their minds with savage hammer blows of heat. Take the day, for instance, when British and German soldiers, fierce enemies the previous day, stood shoulder to shoulder, guns blazing, to fight back a […]