September 1st, 1939. As the German army blitzkrieged its way across Poland, they didn’t have it all their way. The Polish were steadfast in their defence of their homeland, desperately trying to hold back the tide. But the Nazis would rue the day one man, Corporal Tomasz Zielinski, got on board an armoured train named […]
“The Cobras” they called them, this squadron of Airacobra fighters which struck day after day at the Nazis and always seemed to just vanish into the desert again.No wonder the Nazis could never find their secret base. It was deep behind German lines —the last place the enemy would look! Story: Brunt Ar: Arias […]
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 […]
Who believes in magic? Does anyone nowadays? In olden days the air was thick with tales of strange wonders… magic swords, magic horses, magic armour. This story is about modern warfare, but it is also about a giant axe handed down from those far-off times. Perhaps when you have read it you will know that […]
Jeff Parker was hailed a hero by the recruits in his new platoon. They’d heard that he’d been injured on D-Day, so they reckoned he knew all about fighting. The truth was that he’d never even reached the beaches —he’d hurt himself on the way. But hero they called him and hero he was going […]
On and on, over the endless desert wastes went the thirteen desperate Nazis and their two prisoners, Lieutenant Steve Roland and Brigadier Alan Warren. Normally, a German patrol with two captive British officers would have made for their HQ at top speed. But not these Germans! Neither Steve nor Warren had the slightest idea […]
A secret, third Shokaku-Class Aircraft Carrier carries eight twin dual-purpose guns, twelve anti-aircraft guns and over seventy-two aircraft —a heck of a threat for the Royal Australian Navy in the South Pacific! But there are two rowdy and tenacious captains who won’t rest until it goes under! A regular couple of Ahabs, this is one […]
In the whole British Army there was no truck driver as dashing or daring as Corporal Bill Bragg… that’s what all Bill Bragg’s men believed. But one day, when Bill was driving flat out, he heard a truck horn behind him blare out an angry request to pass. At the wheel of the pursuing truck […]
Frank Regan was British through and through, so when war broke out, he immediately wanted to join up. The snag was, he was in a South American ranch many thousands of miles away. But he needn’t have worried. Before he could go to war, war came to him —complete with a U-boat full of enemy […]
In the brutality of the Second World War, people were herded, contained, not knowing what would happen to them, if the next bullet fired would be for them. But that did not mean that they went quietly, like cattle. They fought back against the fascists, determined to make sure the story of their struggle survived […]
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