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 […]
There was something stirring among the pines, where the sun doesn’t ever shine, in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944. American soldiers, ill‑prepared for grim German weather, shivered the whole night through. But the savage winter, cold, and feverish rain, weren’t the only things they had to contend with in those dark and mysterious woods. The […]
Seven men in two dinghies, braving the cold swirling seas to attack a Nazi radar station on a small Norwegian island that rises bleak and forbidding, like a mountain, out of the sea. And the Germans waiting for them — Germans who had been warned of the raid by one of the seven, a traitor […]
The agent codenamed “Condor” had returned home to a hero’s welcome in Berlin. As a saboteur who had eluded the British in their own country, he deserved the highest honours Germany could bestow, now that his dangerous work was over. But this Condor was not what he seemed. His loyalty was to Britain, and now […]
It was a duel, fought high in the hills in Italy. A duel between a Mauser carbine and a Lee Enfield 303. Both riflemen were experts, but it was the Lee Enfield that won. Why? Because it was being fired by Peter Trelawney, who never missed. Peter was a quiet young chap who didn’t look […]
By April 1941, the Nazis had invaded Greece and were pushing the Allies out. Greek, British and Anzac soldiers all fought back bravely, but they were no match. Evacuation was inevitable, however for one Tasmanian, no man was getting left behind! Sergeant Billy Waugh may not have wanted to be a chauffeur to a General, […]
Newly transferred to a desert reconnaissance group, Jim Collingwood was determined to prove he was good enough to serve with the experienced men around him. And on his first patrol he did just that, saving the others from an enemy ambush that could have wiped them all out. But what no-one else in the unit […]
Nobody, but nobody, likes a Military Policeman. And when one has been charged with murdering a soldier in a brawl, there’s plenty of witnesses who’ll say they saw it all — whether they did or not! That’s what happened to Sergeant Slasher Gibson, that’s why he was locked up in a military prison with the […]
It takes all kinds of men to win a war — the daring devil‑may‑care types and the quieter, steadier types who make up the solid backbone of any successful army. Captain Mike Palmer was one of the steady types. He didn’t waste lives in needless heroics but he always got the job done. And when […]
Polish Sergeant Jakub Leszczuk is one of the last men defending Lwow in 1939, but as the Russian tanks roll in, his unit rescues a small puppy called Rebus from a collapsed building. It isn’t long before Rebus becomes far more than a lucky mascot for the escaping soldiers! As they retrain for the parachute […]
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