Nobody liked Bill Davies. He’d been a pickpocket before the war, and when he got into uniform, his mates reckoned he stole from them too. Then the Japanese captured him along with the others, and even they didn’t like the little rat. Well, as it turned out, Bill wasn’t a little rat. Not any more. […]
The Kokoda Trail —an unforgiving path slicing through the jungle of Papua New Guinea for sixty gruelling miles. Through thick mud, merciless terrain, and Japanese attack after attack, Australian soldiers retreated, picking up much-needed supplies from airdrops by the Royal Australian Air Force. But when one of the aircraft making supply runs is attacked leaving […]
Edward Cuthbert-Powell and Archie Perkins may have been top of the class together at RAF Flying Training School, but the pair had little else in common. While Edward was loud and brash, Archie was quiet and a bit of a loner, much to the frustration of his classmate. When both are assigned to RAF Biggin […]
Commander Ernst Strubler —ace U-boat captain with a list of kills as long as your arm, a veteran of the fearful battles of the Atlantic convoys. Lieutenant Dave Moore of the Royal Navy —second‑in‑command of a sub‑killing corvette. He was another veteran —he’d seen his first ship sunk by the U‑boat, and barely escaped with […]
Tommy Hicks was fed up. He had joined the US Marines to see action and gain glory. Only, his unit had been moved from airfield to airfield without seeing hide nor hair of the enemy, not to mention any combat. How was he supposed to make his pop proud and earn his respect if he […]
Stan Newman was a natural‑born pilot. He loved flying the marvellous Hawker Hart biplanes in India before the war, and then later the Hawker Fury fighters. So it was a great day for him when he took up the latest Hawker aeroplane, the famous Hurricane. He threw it all overt he sky in a wonderful […]
Bill Drummond, a British Army lieutenant, looked in dismay at the cringing figure crouching in the corner of the cellar, fear haunting his nervous, flickering eyes. Bill found it hard to believe that this was the same man who’d saved his life only weeks before. But then he didn’t know the full story of this […]
He’d said he would never surrender. He even made a bet on it. And when a guy like Mike Mason says something he sticks to his word. So, although he was shot down in enemy territory, taken prisoner by the Germans, slung in jail by the Italians, he never in fact surrendered! Of course, he […]
What started out as a well‑planned raid on the North African coast by a crack force of British Commandos had developed into a nightmare chase across the desert. There was one among them with a grudge against all Germans. He had wrecked the mission and now he was steadily wrecking any chances of survival. The […]
Who was the silent saboteur who struck swiftly and effectively against the German occupiers, and who proved as much of a headache to the carefully organised French Resistance as he did to the local Nazi officer? He was known as The Fox, but soon he would be tamed. His one-man war would become very different… […]
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