Author Archives: georgia

Winners Losers

Issue Number: 5802

Karl Von Hessler always had to win. A trophy held aloft or medal on his chest were prizes worth any sacrifice. His brother Ulrich had different rules. During the First World War, he’d sickened of the killing and vowed never to wear a uniform again. Instead, he’d turned to medicine and the fight against death. […]

Hold Until Relieved

Issue Number: 5801

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 […]

Eagle-eyed Cadman: The Fighting Coward

Issue Number: 5799

The Western Front, January 1915. When Lieutenant Gerald Cadman claims the credit for Private Tom Smith’s perfect shot, it creates a chance for him to escape the trenches and become a sniper. Earning glory while hiding and never getting close to the enemy? It sounds just like the kind of fighting Cadman can get behind! […]

The QM’s Storeroom of Secrets

Issue Number: 5797

Ey up, ghouls and creeps! Feast your eyes on Commando’s first‑ever anthology of horror! Included in this creepy Commando are six supernatural tales I’ve collected from my storeroom! From crows to bats, from thieves to murderers and from witches to vampires — there’s something for everyone here in Commando!   Story: Georgia Standen Battle Art: […]

Strange Frequencies

Issue Number: 5795

The camp is deserted, no sign of life anywhere. But what’s that you hear among the shifting sands in the barren North African desert? Maybe in the distance there is the drum and thump of artillery like a heartbeat, but not here, not even the howls of the wind interrupt the horrible stillness. That is […]

River of Death

Issue Number: 5794

They took Jim Chalmers off Hurricanes because they reckoned he’d lost his nerve, fought too many dogfights with Zeroes. They gave him a lumbering Dakota on a routine job ferrying supplies from one base to another. Jim didn’t like this at all, but he needn’t have worried. There were wilder days coming, days when he […]

The Demon of Selva Oscura

Issue Number: 5793

July 1943. As war rages across Europe, the Italian village of Selva Oscura has grown eerily quiet. Troubled SOE captain, Simon Peters, has been tasked with securing the strategic territory. Unbeknownst to him, the sadistic Oberst Faustmann rules over Selva Oscura with a strange power. Why can none of the villagers escape through the surrounding […]