Bleak Point – a training area for Captain Jake Baron and his Royal Marine crews of high-speed launches packed with explosives. There they learned the perils of mechanical failure, rough seas, bad weather – and how to tackle enemy defences. They began to think, though, that the biggest danger came from their hosts and rivals […]
Luke Carrick was unexpectedly “press-ganged” into Royal Navy service at the height of the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th Century. Serving on board the HMS Hera, a frigate, Luke’s resentment at his treatment and loathing of authority steadily grew as the ship embarked on a series of increasingly dangerous voyages. Luke’s older brother, Silas, […]
THE MEN – Tough British sailors schooled in the traditions of Trafalgar. Lean, hard-fighting Americans spurred on by the memory of Pearl Harbour. THE SHIPS – MTBs of the Royal Navy – four torpedo tubes, six guns, capable of 40 knots. Patrol Torpedo Boats of the US Navy – four tubes, five guns, a top […]
In the lead-up to the hastily organised evacuation at Dunkirk, a disparate group of servicemen found themselves thrown together. A Pay Corps clerk… …an RAF policeman… …and a Royal Navy Able Seaman… …were joined by a shady civilian who was unsure whose side he was on, except his own. They would have to combine their […]
Sinister shapes like prowling sharks – and just as dangerous – swim silently towards a German battleship. Total destruction is their aim. And all the time hostile German eyes are marking the frogmen’s every move…
In the late 1700s, Ensign Francis Allingham, of the Wessex Dragoons, and his friend, junior naval Lieutenant John Harker, joined forces to help rescue French aristocrats from the “Reign of Terror” – a dark period in history when the rulers of the new republic executed any who stood against them. Despite the risks, Francis’ special […]
After the tumultuous events of the English Civil War, Sergeant Samuel Carrick and his fellow Roundhead soldiers were victorious but disillusioned. So disillusioned, that they sailed away to start new lives in the far-off Americas. The idyllic farming colony they established was christened New Eden. Here they worked hard and lived peacefully off the fruits […]
After Royal Navy Lieutenant-Commander Robert Paterson lost his ship, his crew – and very nearly his life – to a prowling U-Boat in the Atlantic, he became obsessed with finding the enemy sub responsible. Robert was given command of a Q-Ship – a vessel that looked like a merchantman but was fitted with concealed guns […]
Meet Clive Rushden, brilliant Hurricane pilot. Meet Mark Rushden, young Commando officer. They were brothers, but put them in the same room and they’d be at each other’s throats. What a pair to choose for one of the most daring missions ever conceived – and behind enemy lines.
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