Tag Archives: Gordon C Livingstone

Face of Courage

Issue Number: 5310

Courage and plenty of it — that’s what a soldier needs in wartime. But in the North African desert during the Second World War, it wasn’t only regular troops who were caught up in the fighting. There were many civilians and tribesmen there too. And one such tribe, with the help of some British soldiers […]

Enemy in Disguise

Issue Number: 5308

The Lancaster gunner gave a friendly wave to the approaching American Thunderbolt. It was great to have these powerful, heavily‑armed fighters on his side, he reckoned. Then his grin vanished as the Thunderbolt hurtled towards him in an attacking dive, its guns blazing. He wasn’t to know that the Thunderbolt belonged to a special force […]

Steel and Sand

Issue Number: 5260

The desert war was a hard, fast and furious series of lightning clashes between tough professional warriors striving for supremacy in the sandy wastes. But it was a clean, fair war, with each side treating its enemies decently and honourably… It should have been like that for Lieutenant Dick Shannon too — but then Dick […]

The Last Nazis

Issue Number: 5222

The Nazi dream was shattered, broken and splintered between the forces of the Allies. And yet some diehards would still not admit defeat. Somehow, somewhere they were certain that the sinister swastika would rule again. Which was why a group of them set sail on a war-weary U-boat as the ruins of Germany blazed. And […]