His name was Mike Stone. He was a British Army sergeant who’d been stranded in the jungle with four British prisoners — deserters and troublemakers on their way to a military prison in Rangoon. Normally it would have been just a routine job — but this time their route ran through Japanese territory. And Mike […]
Captain Grant Thor has seen his team through the disaster at Kasserine Pass and onto success on the beachhead at Anzio — but as the terrain changes and he finds himself pinned down in a tiny Italian village, the stalwart hero crumbles in the wake of the Nazi Panthers lying in wait. Imprisoned and replaced […]
1941, Crete. Men wage war on the largest of the Greek Islands, leaving it in ruins. But Cretan women are strong. Forged in the same fire as the ancient Amazons who fought off armies of invaders on Crete before them, these women wouldn’t crumble but rise to meet adversity with their faces to the sun. […]
Lieutenant Bob Hanson woke up, instantly alert, as the strong beam of an electric torch illuminated the dark corners of the cave he was sheltering in. Then he relaxed when he saw the men at the cave mouth were kitted out in British paratrooper uniform. Bob knew these men were amongst the finest, highly‑trained soldiers […]
Evacuation — again — just like in Greece. The battle for the island of Crete lasted just thirteen days, as Fallschirmjager rained down bringing death and destruction with them. Aussie Corporal Ted Olsen had mates who stayed behind in Greece and it got them killed. Now he’s got a new squad and he’s determined to […]
Five men found The Dead Man’s Chest, Hidden in a cave on an island in the sea, One saw the riches and turned against the rest, And decided the treasure was only for he. But away they went to war in the sands, And the treasure laid forgotten by the five, As one by one […]
High in a mountain village in Nepal, a Gurkha warrior began to speak… “Gather round and listen. Tonight I tell a story as fierce as the North-West frontier of India where the tale was born. A story of one of the greatest of our sons who left this village to serve with the British in […]
In the deep jungles of Burma, 82nd West African Division Sergeant Obafemi Agbaje and his men rescue Captain James Kinnear from a downed Japanese transport plane. Now they must face the terrors of the wilderness as they try to get back to base with the injured officer. But the relentless Major Higashi and his lackeys […]
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 […]
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