Sergeant Brian Hardy had a problem. His CO had been killed and he was now in charge of a squad of mountain Commandos and a band of wild Italian partisans. They had just captured Major Bode, the most hated Nazi in Italy. The orders were to bring him back alive over the high, ragged mountains […]
German soldiers feared the night. Their restless sleep was interrupted by a sound caught on the wind —like the flapping of wings or the knocking of flying broomsticks. Like ghosts, the Polikarpov Po-2 fighters of 588th Night Bomber Regimentswooped in to attack, destroying all that dared to be in their path. The Germans soon began […]
Was it true that this car could kill people it didn’t like? It was a huge, powerful job, hand-built to special order, but it wasn’t just its size and speed that made folk call it “The Monster”. No, there was something more to it than that. If the driver was a good person, the car […]
Lieutenant Harry Brent was a man with a mission. He had been chosen by British Intelligence to go into the desert and convince the local tribesmen to fight alongside the British — and the bag of gold he carried would act as the perfect persuader. An easy task, you might think, but Harry was going […]
A socialite, nurse, and driver, Petra Stone wasn’t afraid of anything. Once she fixed her mind on something she put her foot straight down on the accelerator, racing ahead and leaving everyone else in her dust. When war broke out, finally she had a real challenge and a chance to prove herself. She didn’t know what […]
When the bullets start to fly a man needs to be very quick or very fortunate if he’s going to get out of the way. Peter Reed reckoned he was one of the fortunate ones — after all, the lucky charm he carried in his pocket had seen him safely through a lot of hard […]
Women in the French Resistance played a vital role in fighting back against their Nazi invaders. For many, the biggest role they could play was in sabotage… Michelle Peel was one such woman, and with a basket full of explosives and the help of some friends she would attempt to take down a vital Nazi […]
It was a sad day for Clive Shaw when he learned that his older brother, Mike, had been shot down in his Spitfire over France. But it also made Clive all the more determined to be a pilot and become a great ace himself — the finest fighter in the RAF! It was a great […]
“My husband was killed defending the Motherland. I decided I wanted to personally take revenge on the fascist dogs for his death. I won’t stop until every German in Russia has tasted every ounce of my anger… sometimes I’m so angry I can’t even breathe.” The driver of a T-34 tank named ‘Wife’ was no […]
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