In 1915, Germany unleashed their first horrific gas attack on the war-torn landscape of Belgium. It was a devastating blow on the French and Algerian forces in Kitcheners’ Wood. Caught in the deadly cloud was young Canadian, Harry MacDonald, and his twin Tom. Watching his brother gasp for air, Harry fought within himself — should […]
The British were the first nation to produce the hulking metal monoliths called tanks. And this one was a beast! Her name was Lydia, but she was a male configuration Mark IV Tank, tearing through the trenches of World War One. The driver, country bumpkin, Alf Hubbert, had a lesson to learn — that tanks […]
Dawn… the time for shooting deserters and traitors… the time when justice is dealt out with a bullet. Nobody knows how many men have died in this way throughout all the world’s wars, but now another soldier was about to face this penalty at the hands of an executioner who had covered thousands of miles […]
There was nothing Lieutenant Arthur Gormley wanted more than to do his bit in the war. He had tried to join the cavalry but due to unforeseen circumstances had ended up in the Army Cyclist Corps. But that didn’t dampen his spirits! Every time he fell off that bicycle, he would get back on again… […]
Tom Cowie’s letters home made his fifteen year old brother, John, idolise him. It was his dream to fight at his brother’s side and John was determined to join the fight before it was over! He was tall for his age, but the recruitment office was only the first hurdle as the harsh realities of […]
Private Ned Nolan ran. He ran through the trenches, he ran through the rain, he ran through the mud, the poison gas and the battle-torn wastes of no man’s land. When he had a message to deliver, he would run through thick and thin – but all that running got him into trouble. He ran […]
The Great War saw some of the most progressive advances in technological warfare – and flying aces were at the height of it all! Pierre Lafitte and Gustav Von Brunner are closely matched in skill, dexterity, and cunning – but when their mutual history stays Lafitte’s hand in an air duel, an opportunity to break […]
For many generations, there had been a Count von Regenskirch in the German Army. This duty had passed from father to son – but then, during the First World War, the Count was killed and his small son disappeared. But that child was not dead. Grown to manhood, he now stood proudly in military uniform. […]
The pilots and soldiers fighting in and above the trenches, tracing their way across France in the First World War, knew all about fear. They faced it every day and made the best of coping with it. That was never easy and if it did become too much, there was always a price to pay. […]
By late 1918, Captain Daniel ‘Danny’ Weekes had been in the trenches for longer than he could remember. He could no longer recall all the faces of the men who had served with him or died under his command. He would do anything to put a stop to the fighting. But with three brothers, a […]
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