Piloting a lurching bomb‑loaded Lancaster through the flame‑lit, shell‑torn night skies of Germany needed nerves of steel. Bomber pilots were a tough, cheery bunch. They had to be. Then into a squadron came the strange, young pilot with pure white hair and burning, bitter eyes, and raids began to go wrong. Bombs were wasted on […]
Captain Chris Blower and his company of British paratroopers were assigned a dangerous mission in enemy‑occupied Sicily in 1943. As if that wasn’t tough enough, an American colonel had got in on the act. A real‑life film star with an inflated sense of his own importance, he knew too much about future invasion plans for […]
You won’t find the name on any maps for this barren, mountainous region, but somehow the Germans had learned about the narrow pass which the local Arabs called “The Devil’s Road”. Now the enemy were about to put their knowledge to lethal use and the two men who had stumbled on their secret and might […]
Hunter was a crackshot, a tough, well-trained sergeant. Bunter was lazy and afraid — a useless soldier. From their first meeting, the two hated the sight of one another. Not the makings of a good team at all, but the day would come when each of them would have to depend on the other — […]
Not every desert island is a paradise… as the shipwrecked British sailors washed up on Tarotonga were quick to find out. They’d barely dragged themselves ashore when an eerie wailing echoed along the beach and chilled their blood. Someone or something seemed displeased at their presence, and events began to take a more murderous course. […]
In the year 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland to win back the British crown, with the support of the The Old Alliance. The French sent supplies and money to aid their Scottish allies, and so began the last of the Jacobite rebellions. Centuries later, one coin was in the hands of Bruce Niven, […]
Private Andy Rooney was a real bad lot — a skiver, a shirker, a nasty piece of work. And when he became a glider pilot it was the same — wherever he went, he got into hot water. With friend and foe alike, the arrival of Andy meant…NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Story: Staff Art: […]
North Africa, November 1942. During the aerial front of Operation Torch, an Allied pilot and a Vichy pilot are forced down in a mountainous region of Algeria. Ready to continue the battle hand to hand, they soon must put their differences aside, as they discover they’ve landed slap bang in the hunting ground of a […]
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 […]
For mates Pete, Tim, Gary and Winston, the end of the war was so close they could taste it… but what was next? They had no money, no prospects — nothing to show for it all when they got back to civvy street. That was, until a German prisoner offered them a reward for aiding […]
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