Many air fighters painted an emblem on their machines, and William Kidd felt like a pirate with crossed cutlasses marked on his Sopwith Camel. That was before he shot down the ace German fighter with the broadsword on his plane… and then did the same to his son in the Spanish Civil War. Now, a […]
Dick Hammond’s life was hanging by a thread as he dangled perilously from a climbing rope on a top-secret mission in occupied France. Above him was Grace Baird, holding on to the sheer face of the cliff for life, and below him was his doom. He would have trusted Grace with his life… if only […]
Sergeant Michael Finnegan was a veteran of the desert war, he and his crew forged in the flames of the scorching sun. But on D-Day +7, his life was shattered as his crew was ruthlessly gunned down by an enemy Panzer while climbing out of their disabled Sherman Firefly tank. And yet… whispers spread about […]
Phuoc Tuy, 1968. Private Ian Ewell arrives for his first posting with the Australian SAS. Thrown in at the deep end and faced with everything from guerrilla traps to flesh-eating ants, the green recruit finds the dense jungle of Vietnam to be even more perilous than he ever imagined. His teammates need him to come […]
Eddy Phillips’ moment of cricket glory at Yateley Hall is cut down when the head boy strikes him in the knee with his bat after being shown up on the pitch. A ‘bounder’, Eddy was never going to fit in. But that did not stop him from signing up to do his bit in the […]
Historians mark the Dodecanese campaign as one of the last major German victories of World War Two. What the history books fail to mention is that Allied and German forces were not the only aggressors active in that region in September 1943. For something far older and deadlier than the Luftwaffe stalked the skies above […]
Something evil is stirring in Scotland. Deep in the bleak woods, hidden among the undergrowth, lies a secret —a bunker door behind which terror breeds. But the bunker is silent. No contact has been made with the people inside for months, and the teams sent to investigate have all disappeared without a trace… the bunker’s […]
One morning in autumn, 1944, the fishing boat Serenity set out to sea from Trinidad never to return. Instead, Serenity’s crew are taken hostage by a deadly gang of Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy sailors with one thing on their minds — digging up their stolen gold and fleeing the war to Venezuela. But Serenity is not […]
In the midst of the Plantagenet Wars, Edric of Burley and The Green Men blaze from fight to fight as the lords and nobles have their petty disputes. When one village stops paying its tithes it’s clear not all is well in this English-held part of France, as Godfrey of Tours leads his French mercenaries […]
Life for Henry Chance was one big game. Even when war broke out in 1939, Henry signed up to become a fighter pilot thinking it would be a lark. Soon his daring deeds in a Hurricane earned him a reputation —but he was abruptly brought back to earth when he was shot down and rescued […]
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