You needed lots of courage to fly over enemy territory in a small, unarmed aircraft, and even more to actually land on such dangerous ground. Yet that’s what the pilots of these Westland Lysanders did as they went about their vital task of ferrying secret agents into and out of occupied France. And for one […]
France, 1940. John Hanson, a cook in the British Army, is out in the field delivering breakfast — bullets with a side of bacon. All Hanson wants to do is make better meals for the men, so he spends his spare time scrounging up ingredients from anywhere he can get them. But while out hunting […]
Lieutenant Ken Miller and Sergeant Bill Blunden had a most important mission — to give the Germans as much information about the Allied invasion of Europe as possible. Heading into enemy-occupied France on a foggy night in May 1944, the pair had a date with danger to keep. How could they know what lay ahead? […]
Egypt, 1942. Military Police Captain Henry Howard has a murdered prisoner on his hands and thinks he’s heard of just the man to help him solve the mystery — but the enemy is almost upon them! With tanks rolling towards the Allied lines, he and Havildar Tejas Singh dodge bullets and race against the clock […]
Dedicated, tough, and invincible — that was the “Special Squad”. Made up of the elite of the British forces, this band of heroes worked behind enemy lines striking at the heart of the foe. Mark Butcher was their latest recruit. Young, strong, and cool-headed, he had one skill the others didn’t have, a knowledge of […]
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 […]
One by one the British paratroopers began their drop from the Dakota flying high over the Burmese jungle. Watching them go was Sergeant Rusty Miller. All went well until it was the last man’s turn to jump — Private Jason Jones. And Jason had a private feud with Miller, a quarrel that never let up. […]
It started in the desert, tracking down the so-called ‘Sahara Sniper’, where LRDG Sergeant Jeff Nicholson lost his best friend in the worst way imaginable. Now, as the Allies make their way through the Italian mountains, medics are being picked off faster than a sniper’s bullet! Can Jeff and a green American crack-shot corporal finally […]
Providing support for a bunch of hard-pressed troops in the thick jungle wasn’t easy for even a crack squadron of Thunderbolts. In fact, it would have been well-nigh impossible but for the efforts of Tony Norton. Although he was a fine pilot, Tony was on the ground right now, fighting alongside the soldiers and sending […]
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 […]
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