Major John Lloyd read the message handed to him by the dispatch rider with his heart in his throat. His orders were to defend the strategic village of Vorrain, with only his inept Lieutenant Gordon Foreman and a handful of men in newly constructed pillboxes. They were hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned.

But he had his orders to ‘hold until relieved’ and against the odds they were going to.

Story: Stephen Hume

Art: Jaume Forns

Cover: Marco Bianchini