December 7th, 1941. Rick Brennan was a private eye before the war, but there wasn’t much call for detective work in the Ardennes, just cold nights and bad sleep. When he got himself three days leave in Paris, he thought he had it made – finally, some rest. But fate had other plans. After running […]
A bunch of teenage French boys commanded by a British schoolmaster couldn’t cause the Nazi invaders that much trouble, could they? You bet they could! Story: Bernard Gregg Art: Ruiz Cover: Ian Kennedy
It was the summer of 1940, and the whole of France was thrown into utter confusion as the invading German troops advanced relentlessly, leaving a trail of chaos and destruction behind them. Trapped amidst all this turmoil were two British schoolboys — John and Will Browning. Fending for themselves in a foreign country, they were […]
They were once allies — Britain and France. The two nations’ men standing together, united against the Nazi threat. But everything changed when France was overrun, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the unthinkable — attack Mers-el-Kebir and sink the French Navy’s ships. Two men were caught in the middle — one British, one French. […]
As the German half-track hurtled towards the two men, Captain Peter Brookes grabbed the startled German officer and hauled him to safety. But who was driving the vehicle? Why did he want to kill his own countryman? It was a mystery that had started in France, continued in North Africa, and was now back in […]
France, 1940. John Hanson, a cook in the British Army, is out in the field delivering breakfast — bullets with a side of bacon. All Hanson wants to do is make better meals for the men, so he spends his spare time scrounging up ingredients from anywhere he can get them. But while out hunting […]
War had washed over the French village of Rethcourt like tides. The locals had learned to live with them and to look forward to the peace which followed in their wake. But for three Frenchmen in particular, peace seemed destined never to come. Their secret war raged on as they fought with the memory of […]
Sergeant George Ward, British dispatch rider, was roaring back to his base in France after a routine delivery job and looking forward to bacon and eggs. Ahead of him the road swung round a long, fast curve and into a dark forest — and what happened when George raced into that wood was to give […]
Lieutenant John Weller was like a bloodhound when he was on a case. From his early years as a police detective, solving high‑class robberies, to being a military policeman on the trail of a smuggling ring in the British Army – nothing could stand between him and his investigation… not even a little thing called […]
It came out of nowhere, a glint of moonlight reflected in the dark night sky. The Luftwaffe pilot’s eyes frantically searched for his attacker in the murk of the evening, but it was invisible… a phantom. Then it streaked across the clouds like a bat out of Hades, its guns blazing at the Messerschmitt 109. […]
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