England, 1405 AD. Peasants in Somerset wanted rid of the Allinghams, their feudal overlords. The Allinghams’ men were as brutal and cruel as their masters. Taxes were high and collected without mercy. Salvation seemed to come in the shape of Mortimer Allingham – the cunning son of the clan who has been disowned by his […]
In 1944 someone named the servicemen in Italy the D-Day Dodgers; as though somehow the war they were fighting was a cushy number compared to the battles in France. Outraged, one national newspaper decided to expose these loafers once and for all. That’s how reporter Perry Potter and his photographer Chalky White came to be […]
He was only a skinny little guy, about five feet nothing at all…but, by jiminy, any Nazis who ran up against Private Sam Small were out of luck. While his ammo lasted, Sam shot them; then with his empty gun he clubbed them; when it was in splinters, he started in with his bare hands! […]
The jungle can be a hostile place, besides the strength-sapping heat and humidity, dangerous animals and plants abound. This counts double if you’re a confirmed coward, born and raised in London, separated from your comrades and being pursued by a deadly assassin. That was the position that “Jelly” Jakes of the Convict Commandos found himself […]
Staff-Sergeant Harry Sale of the Special Air Service had fought his way out of more tight corners than he cared to remember. Now he was across in the USA, away from the bullets and the bombs, passing on his specialised knowledge to squads of hand-picked Yanks. It was supposed to be a hard-earned break from […]
England, after 1066, was a violent place. As William of Normandy tightened his grip on the English throne, it was a time of war and great unrest. The incoming Norman forces ruled with an iron fist. One especially cruel member of the new ruling class was Roland of Alain – who aimed to crush any […]
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