The two Royal Engineers sprang to their feet and sprinted down the tunnel, heading for the open air and safety. Behind them came a menacing chatter as the German armoured car opened up with its machine gun, the heavy bullets whining and spattering off the concrete walls. At any moment a ricochet might hit the […]
Superstitious, are you? Do you believe in fortunetellers and the like? If you do, you wouldn’t fancy being handed the Ace of Spades —the death card —as the key to your future, especially when this particular card had spelt death for two previous owners. But Jim Frobisher of the Commandos wasn’t worried. In fact, he […]
Before he became a Commando, Joe Doran had been a thief, a very clever and successful thief. Now inaction in Nazi‑occupied Norway, he had got his hands on a gold statuette encrusted with jewels, something that would bring him an enormous amount of money. Could he resist the temptation to keep it? Story: Bernard […]
He was the rear gunner of a Lancaster and was just completing his latest tour of operations. In fact this was his last trip before going on leave. But he never got that leave. Instead he found himself in France, on his own, and with the enemy approaching rapidly. The situation was desperate enough — […]
Why were two German soldiers and a British commando skiing together down a valley in the Austrian Alps? The answer lay buried in the heart of one of those mountains — a king’s ransom in jewellery, known as the Kellenburg Collection. It had already caused the deaths of two men, and it was going to […]
When you want an agent to penetrate an enemy-occupied country and stay free long enough to do a tricky job, you need someone who’s used to getting around without attracting attention. Who better than a man who smuggled diamonds in and out of that very country for years? But there’s a difference between peace-time and […]
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