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The Spy of Sweslik Castle

Issue Number: 5719

In the Bavarian mountains perched Sweslik castle. In times past, the castle had been a monastery, but in 1943 it was an impregnable fortress which housed Allied prisoners of war. Its German guards claimed that any and all escape was impossible, and they were determined to keep it that way. For there was a spy […]

Allies at War

Issue Number: 5717

They were once allies — Britain and France. The two nations’ men standing together, united against the Nazi threat. But everything changed when France was overrun, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the unthinkable — attack Mers-el-Kebir and sink the French Navy’s ships. Two men were caught in the middle — one British, one French. […]