Night after night, fierce, no-quarter battles were fought in the narrow waters of the English Channel and the North Sea by small craft of the British and German navies. As Lieutenant Hugh Humbert was to find out, the smallest mistake could have a high toll on ships and men’s lives. The only way to be […]
Enemy-infested jungles are unnerving places at the best of times, but when you’ve been washed from the bridge of a submarine, swam several miles to the nearest beach, have no weapons and no food – the situation is ten times more frightening. That’s precisely what happened to Lieutenant Stan Baker and Able Seaman “Scruffy” Waterman. […]
To young Joe Pike and the crew of the Sunderland flying boat, the mission to rescue a British diplomat cut off by the Japanese seemed a routine job. But then things began to go wrong, badly wrong. And Joe, ambitious and eager to prove his ability to command, grabbed his chance with both hands. Their […]
They called him a “headline hero” – a guy always out for glory, a guy who was always getting his photograph in the papers. Then, on one routine mission, his luck ran out. With his Spitfire riddled with German bullets, he parachuted from a flaming cockpit to the desert sands below. Nothing would ever be […]
On the island of Sicily, there was a secret cave — the Cave of Hercules. Hidden for centuries, it was rumoured to contain treasure beyond price. And now one man, Horace Gee, had cracked the ancient clues and worked out just exactly where it must be. But there was one big snag — the cave […]
When France was overrun and occupied by the Germans in 1940, everyone had to come to terms with the situation. Most Frenchmen accepted the occupation, many fought with the Resistance, but some actively helped the Germans. These people were collaborators, the worst kind of traitor. Rene Latouche and his father were well known to be […]
In a desperate race against time, Arnold Ragley dragged the unconscious driver from the burning truck and began stumbling to safety with him. Why the hurry? Because he knew that the truck was filled with high explosive! It was a heroic action… which was strange, because Arnold Ragley had never been a hero and never […]
Lieutenant Bob Warren was an expert at defusing German bombs and mines and was quite used to odd hours and strange workplaces. So when he was awakened in the middle of the night and told there was another job to be done, he wasn’t too concerned. But when he realised that his destination was enemy-occupied […]
For over a century, the old naval cutlass had hung in the hall of the French chateau along with many other relics of past wars. But this weapon was different from the rest — it was British, made of British steel, only ever wielded in wartime by British hands. How it had come to be […]
The sergeant couldn’t believe his ears when Lieutenant Ron Deal ordered the men to lay down their arms. This was the brave officer who led them from the battlefields of France to the scorching sands of the North African desert. He’d never been known to give in without a fight, so what was he up […]
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