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 […]
Lieutenant Tony Markham stood on the bridge of his Motor Torpedo Boat. In front of him was a twenty‑millimetre cannon, behind him were twin half‑inch machine guns and to each side a twenty‑one inch torpedo. Sounds a lot? Not when the target is a massive enemy tanker in a heavily defended French harbour it’s not! […]
Take one midget submarine less than fifty feet long, only thirty-nine tons in weight and with a crew of just four. To this add a cowardly captain and dangerous mission —to sink an enemy battle-cruiser anchored in a heavily defended river —and you have the recipe for an adventure! Story: Crowther Art: Nebot Cover: […]
As the German self-propelled guns moved through the snowstorm, thin lines began to appear beneath them and an ominous cracking sound made itself heard. They were on a frozen lake! The panic-stricken crews bailed out as the metal monsters slid through the ice into the waters below. The enemy machines had been led to their […]
Called “Ratso” by everybody, Private John Ratsey more than lived up to his nickname. He was lazy and work-shy, and not averse to a little bit of petty theft if he was sure he could get away with it. If he was such a disreputable character, why then was Sergeant Jamie Taylor trying to ensure […]
When the German war machine rolled into France, it was the first taste of action for many British troops. Most fought bravely, but some wanted to turn and run, scared by the onslaught of bullets and bombs. Such a man was Second Lieutenant Hugh Standerline. He had two fears — the fear of battle and […]
Sam Burton was a young officer on a frigate of the Royal Navy. One night, his ship was sunk during an enemy attack and for about six hours, he drifted around the Mediterranean, clinging to a piece of the wreckage. Then he was picked up by a cargo vessel and twelve hours after that he […]
Was it true that this car could kill people it didn’t like? It was a huge, powerful job, hand-built to special order, but it wasn’t just its size and speed that made folk call it “The Monster”. No, there was something more to it than that. If the driver was a good person, the car […]
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 […]
In Britain the newspaper hailed Clive Bellamy as a hero. But in the deserts of Libya his own men saw him as a coward. All that the enemy ever saw of him was his back. Yet even cowards can change. Even Clive Bellamy, at last, had his one moment of glory. Story: CG Walker […]
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