Take a look at these warriors below. Quite a bunch aren’t they? Shirkers, deadbeats, men too old and boys too young to fight. Those were the types Lieutenant Dave Manning was ordered to take back to the base areas, away from the fighting line. But Dave had other ideas about what he’d do with these […]
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 […]
Mike Boyd cursed his luck. He’d sworn to prove himself a better pilot than his greatest rival, Ian Harper, yet here he was dangling helplessly from his parachute and being guarded by a Curtiss Tomahawk piloted by… guess who? Yep, that man Harper! Story: Staff Art: Amador Cover: Ian Kennedy
Three men in a stolen truck, with hundreds of miles of desert to cross and thousands of enemy troops on the lookout for them. Two of them know little about the desert or the Germans — but the third one, the big stranger, seems to know too much… Story: Lomas Art: CT Rigby Cover: […]
It should have been a routine job — to go into the desert and repair a broken-down tank, but it turned into a nightmare journey for Corporal Rod Pengarth. For there was a curse on this man… in ten days he was going to die! Story: E Hebden Art: Ibanez Cover: Picco
The platoon of British soldiers moved through the swirling murk. The thick smog hung in the air like tar and they could not even see the rifles in their hands. Shadows and shapes in the fog were moving… coming right at them. Story: Dominic Teague Art: Vicente Alcazar Cover: Neil Roberts
The desert war was a hard, fast and furious series of lightning clashes between tough professional warriors striving for supremacy in the sandy wastes. But it was a clean, fair war, with each side treating its enemies decently and honourably… It should have been like that for Lieutenant Dick Shannon too — but then Dick […]
In 1935 anti-Semitism became law in Germany, and Jakob Rosenbaum and his family quickly made their escape. Determined to find revenge for the loss of his homeland, he enlists with the British Army – but convincing his new allies that he can be trusted is no cakewalk. Trapped between enemy and Allied lines, Jakob must […]
It was just a box, metal‑bound and padlocked. It probably contained documents, because an army major was guarding it. But to Sergeant Jim Templeton and his mates it soon became a sinister, hated thing, a prize for which men would cheat and steal – and even kill! Story: RA Montague Art: L Rosell Cover: Penalva
To walk down the street back home and be ignored or insulted isn’t pleasant. But that’s what happened to Lieutenant Phil Wilson – all because a senior officer had lied about Phil’s part in a skirmish out in Italy during the Second World War. For a while, Phil took it very badly, feeling like a […]
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