Karl Von Hessler always had to win. A trophy held aloft or medal on his chest were prizes worth any sacrifice. His brother Ulrich had different rules. During the First World War, he’d sickened of the killing and vowed never to wear a uniform again. Instead, he’d turned to medicine and the fight against death. […]
Deep in the steaming jungle of India, where the tiger is king, there dwelt a sinister spirit. It was known as Thuggee Raj, a ghost tiger which nightly prowled the forest paths, striking terror into every heart. Any man who scoffed at it was foolish indeed, for Thuggee Raj had a power no man could […]
They took Jim Chalmers off Hurricanes because they reckoned he’d lost his nerve, fought too many dogfights with Zeroes. They gave him a lumbering Dakota on a routine job ferrying supplies from one base to another. Jim didn’t like this at all, but he needn’t have worried. There were wilder days coming, days when he […]
Private Andy Rooney was a real bad lot — a skiver, a shirker, a nasty piece of work. And when he became a glider pilot it was the same — wherever he went, he got into hot water. With friend and foe alike, the arrival of Andy meant…NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Story: Staff Art: […]
Sergeant Stan Boden and Private Ernie Briggs were caught behind the advancing German armies in France during 1940. Stan reckoned that if they could fight their way through to Dunkirk they would manage to escape to England. But not Ernie —all he wanted to do was surrender! Story: McDevitt Art: Philpott Cover: Ian Kennedy
The night the tow rope broke was the worst in Lieutenant Mike Hasting’s life. For when his glider crash-landed off target in Sicily, he was captured by a Sicilian brigand called Il Castello who dragged him off to a cave on the side of Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe. And there, Il Castello […]
“The Ghost” — that was the British soldiers’ nickname for the solitary German tank which would appear mysteriously out of the desert wastes to create havoc, and then just as strangely disappear. Its tracks could never be seen, and everybody reckoned it was unstoppable — everybody, that is, except Sergeant Greg Fox. Greg decided to […]
They said that Lancaster pilot Geoff Shaw didn’t need a navigator. He flew so low that his scared crew could see the road signs. You see, Geoff had wanted a sleek Spitfire, but he’d got a lumbering bomber instead. So now he worked off his rage by handling the Lanc like a fast fighter — […]
A first-class soldier in the French Foreign Legion and a crack pilot in the RAF – Jeff Daly had been both during his exciting, hectic life. He’d been to many places and met many people, but the one man he would never forget was his brutal Legion sergeant. If their paths crossed ever again, one […]
An easy-going manner and interest in history, plus a name like Claude Butterfield… they don’t seem to add up to the stuff that heroes are made of, do they? But Claude could be as fierce as a tiger if something made him angry — and then whoever was responsible had better look out! Story: […]
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