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. […]
It’s said that the helicopter came of age as a weapon during the Vietnam War. Hauptmann Karl Enberg of the Luftwaffe’s Kestrel Staffel might dispute that, though. For, in the dying days of Germany’s Third Reich, he and his command of rotorcraft hammered British ground forces and ran rings around Allied fighter aircraft —despite the […]
The B-29 Superfortress was the heaviest aircraft of the Second World War. It was designed for high-altitude bombing and it carried a crew of a dozen men. So what the heck was this one doing dodging around over an enemy airfield at zero feet with only a couple of blokes on board? Well, this wasn’t […]
HMS Samson was Lieutenant Commander Roland Bream’s destroyer —small, fast and deadly, the pride of her crew and a credit to the Royal Navy. But when she crossed the path of a Japanese Yamato‑class battleship she had to turn tail and flee, not through cowardice but through sheer self‑preservation. For her Japanese opponent was one […]
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 […]
Dawn… the time for shooting deserters and traitors… the time when justice is dealt out with a bullet. Nobody knows how many men have died in this way throughout all the world’s wars, but now another soldier was about to face this penalty at the hands of an executioner who had covered thousands of miles […]
To take out Germany’s strongest U-boat base would need a ship packed with explosives, a bunch of blokes with nerves of steel… and an eclipse of the sun. The eclipse could be counted on, but what about the cowardly captain and his crew of convicts? Could they do the job? They had to – thousands […]
The Convict Commandos are back and in trouble again! Jelly Jakes, Titch Mooney, Dr Jane Mallory, Smiler Dawson and Major Guy Tenby are in the thick of it once more — this time in Nazi Germany itself! In a headlong retreat behind their own borders, the Germans were desperate to halt the American advance and […]
Held captive on one of the German-occupied Channel Islands, Air-Commodore Henry Dorning had information which the Nazi High Command desperately wanted. The local Gestapo were supremely confident that they would soon have the gen – and the glory. After all, wasn’t Henry Dorning’s young nephew a hostage in their hands? But it was amazing what […]
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