For every man who fought there, the Eastern Front was a living nightmare, a place of fear and horror where the cruel winters could kill just as effectively as an enemy bullet. For Hans Mayer, it was a chilling change from his time in the French Foreign Legion, fighting under a hot sun against ill-armed […]
Dawn… the time for shooting deserters and traitors… the time when justice is dealt out with a bullet. Nobody knows how many men have died in this way throughout all the world’s wars, but now another soldier was about to face this penalty at the hands of an executioner who had covered thousands of miles […]
Sergeant Joe Cougan was a tough Para who had seen a lot of action and who didn’t suffer fools gladly. Which was unfortunate for Private Andy Bruce, a clumsy youngster whom Cougan considered the world’s biggest fool. Sergeant Sam Gleeson tried in vain to get his arch-rival Cougan to give Andy a break. But there […]
Nobody could doubt the nerve and spirit of Sam Wilson. He was keen to the core, always ready to pile into the action. He was tested to the full as a hard-pressed infantryman, and went on to become a well-trained Commando. He had only one weakness – he didn’t know when to count to ten […]
Before the war, Lieutenant Steve Pitt had been a fisherman off the east coast of England. The boat-handling skills he had learned then were perfect training for what he was doing now — leading hit-and-run raids from the sea to strike at the southern defences of Nazi-held Europe. But hard and dangerous as his days […]
Colin Cooper was no stranger to fear. From the day he nearly fell off a church roof, it had gnawed away at the back of his mind. Then came Norway and more fear when, as a young private, he was injured and left behind by his mates as they retreated before the advancing German invaders. […]
Horses against tanks and aircraft? Not a recipe for success, you’d think. But that was the best that was available for a gallant band of guerrillas – men and boys – battling against the Japanese in the Philippine Islands… as they waited for the Americans to return and set them free.
The heroic last stand of Lieutenant Hugh Overton in the mountains of the Indian North-West Frontier won even the respect of the enemy tribesmen who had wiped out his patrol to a man. Yet by his own people Hugh was branded a coward, a deserter who had fled in terror in the face of the […]
Facing the brunt of the massive German invasion of Russia in June 1941 were the lowly Red Army conscripts. Poorly fed, trained and equipped, they were still expected to repel Hitler’s previously undefeated armies…and could expect the harshest of punishments if they failed. So, join two of these hard-pressed heroes in their trench and see […]
Sam Hollis, a gunner, was no stranger to war. He had seen a lot of action, but even he had never come across anything like this – a solitary Gurkha by the name of Ganju Pun preparing to hold off a heavy Japanese assault… It made more sense to turn and run and it certainly […]
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