The German troops rushed into view just as the Fairey Battle was taking off. Immediately they fired at the aircraft, desperate to prevent its escape. With bullets flying all around him, this would be the supreme test of the pilot’s nerve… but the man behind the controls was a self-confessed coward who had run from […]
The Collection
Fog of War
The last place Private Bill Tasker expected to find himself on his new deployment was at sea — surely that was for the Navy boys? Yet there he was on the top‑secret Blackland Sands sea fort, defending the Thames Estuary from V1 bombs and E-boats. But now it’s thick with fog, he’s lost his pals […]
The Bayonet Fighters
When a man has served for five years in the Foreign Legion you can reckon he knows a thing or two about fighting. Dirk Lassiter had come through many a savage battle, but the grimmest fight of his whole life was against a man who knew just as much as he did — another Legionnaire! […]
Ramree Massacre
Nearly one thousand men went into the mangrove swamps on Ramree Island — but how many would make it out? Everything on Ramree wanted the Japanese garrison dead. British soldiers, Indian soldiers, tropical diseases, poisonous spiders, deadly pythons, and, most terrifying of all, saltwater crocodiles! Story: Kate Dewar Art: Vicente Alcazar Cover: Neil Roberts
Outcast!
For every man who fought there, the Eastern Front was a living nightmare, a place of fear and horror where the cruel winters could kill just as effectively as an enemy bullet. For Hans Mayer, it was a chilling change from his time in the French Foreign Legion, fighting under a hot sun against ill-armed […]
The Peregrine Falcons
In mid-1944, Hitler launched his vengeance weapons. These evil V-1 rockets struck at the heart of Britain’s cities, killing innocent people in their thousands. But Hitler wasn’t going to have it all his way, as his V-1 rockets began being caught in the talons of a squadron known as the Peregrine Falcons — experts in […]
One Moment of Glory
In Britain the newspaper hailed Clive Bellamy as a hero. But in the deserts of Libya his own men saw him as a coward. All that the enemy ever saw of him was his back. Yet even cowards can change. Even Clive Bellamy, at last, had his one moment of glory. Story: CG Walker […]
A-Force: Aftershock
Jack Ramsey’s A-Force team have returned from their mission — a man down. Joe Bones, the Human Fly, is dead, but there’s no time to mourn. With tensions among them high, Jack and his team are sent back to Sarovia to steal a suitcase sized nuke from the fascists. But there are choices Jack must […]
Destination Siberia
When Hector Salway and a bunch of mates decided to go halfway around the world to repay a debt, they knew it wouldn’t be an easy task — their destination was Siberia, with the Cold War between the West and East at its height. What they didn’t know was that a vicious killer who had […]
The Wombat and The Tiger
A monster is lurking in the shipping lanes north of Port Darwin — the size of which no-one has ever imagined. Freighter after freighter sink without a trace and the only ones who can stop the beast have fought their way into a jail cell! The Wombat and The Tiger crews are fierce in a […]