Eddy Phillips’ moment of cricket glory at Yateley Hall is cut down when the head boy strikes him in the knee with his bat after being shown up on the pitch. A ‘bounder’, Eddy was never going to fit in. But that did not stop him from signing up to do his bit in the […]
Historians mark the Dodecanese campaign as one of the last major German victories of World War Two. What the history books fail to mention is that Allied and German forces were not the only aggressors active in that region in September 1943. For something far older and deadlier than the Luftwaffe stalked the skies above […]
Something evil is stirring in Scotland. Deep in the bleak woods, hidden among the undergrowth, lies a secret —a bunker door behind which terror breeds. But the bunker is silent. No contact has been made with the people inside for months, and the teams sent to investigate have all disappeared without a trace… the bunker’s […]
One morning in autumn, 1944, the fishing boat Serenity set out to sea from Trinidad never to return. Instead, Serenity’s crew are taken hostage by a deadly gang of Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy sailors with one thing on their minds — digging up their stolen gold and fleeing the war to Venezuela. But Serenity is not […]
In the midst of the Plantagenet Wars, Edric of Burley and The Green Men blaze from fight to fight as the lords and nobles have their petty disputes. When one village stops paying its tithes it’s clear not all is well in this English-held part of France, as Godfrey of Tours leads his French mercenaries […]
Life for Henry Chance was one big game. Even when war broke out in 1939, Henry signed up to become a fighter pilot thinking it would be a lark. Soon his daring deeds in a Hurricane earned him a reputation —but he was abruptly brought back to earth when he was shot down and rescued […]
Fresh-faced Lieutenant Chuck Kinley arrives in-country to greet his new team, only to be bitterly disappointed with his own performance! With rumours of his predecessors being fragged by their own men, NCOs playing by their own rules, and the Viet Cong taking advantage of Kinley’s naivety, Echo Company find themselves defending an old French outpost […]
Major Jimmy Ivory was up against the clock. He was tasked with providing fuses, explosives, and everything else needed to cause havoc, to the French Resistance. The only problem was the detonators had a habit of going off at the wrong time or not at all, leading to missions failing time and time again —and […]
April 1982 saw Britain enter a new conflict half the world away. But before the war would officially begin, tensions rose as three Royal Marines were sent on a recce mission far from their base at Port Stanley when Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands. Left with an impossible mission that could change the tide of […]
What good is a claustrophobic miner? That was exactly what Charlie Newlands was after the accident. He worked to support his family, but he couldn’t bear to be in the damp pit one second longer than he had to. Luckily, in 1914, there were plenty of men needed so Charlie enlisted, hoping never again to […]
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