After he escaped from the police in London, safecracker Bert Devlin changed his name and joined the army in an attempt to shake off his past. He thought he’d managed it too — until he was stopped by an MP one day who turned out to be the policeman he’d clobbered while escaping! Story: […]
In 1956, the Egyptian government seized control of the Suez Canal. In response, British and French forces launched ‘Operation Musketeer’, a joint offensive to reclaim the canal, transporting troops and aircraft across the Mediterranean Sea in preparation for an invasion. On its way through the Med, HMS Wyndham, encountered a strange, abandoned vessel filled with […]
It was a place shunned by every living creature. No man would go into that wood, no animal hunted there, no insect stirred. For centuries an atmosphere of evil had brooded amongst those trees, while an ancient mist shrouded the terrible things that had happened there. Story: Bernard Gregg Art: Haupt Cover: […]
When the Nazis thundered over Europe they took control of the people and the land. But they did not know what horror lay beneath the earth, hungry and rage-filled from the last war that had ravaged those soils. It had tasted human-flesh and it craved more… Story: Kate Dewar Art: Esteve Polls Cover: Keith […]
His name was Krestor. He was a soldier – but not an ordinary one. For he fought in an army of the future, with weapons far more advanced than those used in the Second World War. But he was also destined to see action in that war, and in the jungles of Burma he was […]
Why were a dozen German paratroopers being flown into British-occupied territory? And why was there a mixed bunch of black-marketeers to greet them? There was certainly more to this than met the eye, and Captain Don Burke, a British undercover agent, was determined to find out what was going on. Story: RA Montague Art: Galindo […]
Cyril Crellin was born during the Regina Cyclone of 1912, and it sure left its mark. He was a hurricane on ice, armed with his lucky hockey stick he could strike the puck as hard as any monsoon, scattering rival players in his wake. One such rival would never forget the sting of defeat at […]
It just was not possible. No soldier, no matter how well trained or fanatical, could keep pace with a speeding jeep — and then run even faster. But that is exactly what had been witnessed by the sole survivor of a badly-mauled British unit. The war was all but won, the German forces on their […]
The flickering flames, the searching burst of German bullets, the creaking of the old bridge. It all added up to dangers to be overcome, no doubt about it. But for Corporal Tony Wiggins the biggest threat was in his own head where a demon lurked which, so far, he had not been able to control. […]
Steve Hunter began to wonder just what he was doing on board a rusty old cargo freighter in the middle of the Indian Ocean, especially when a Japanese submarine began to use the ship for target practice. But he had escaped death before in the long search for his brother and he would do it […]
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