1941, Crete. Men wage war on the largest of the Greek Islands, leaving it in ruins. But Cretan women are strong. Forged in the same fire as the ancient Amazons who fought off armies of invaders on Crete before them, these women wouldn’t crumble but rise to meet adversity with their faces to the sun. […]
Lieutenant Bob Hanson woke up, instantly alert, as the strong beam of an electric torch illuminated the dark corners of the cave he was sheltering in. Then he relaxed when he saw the men at the cave mouth were kitted out in British paratrooper uniform. Bob knew these men were amongst the finest, highly‑trained soldiers […]
In the deep jungles of Burma, 82nd West African Division Sergeant Obafemi Agbaje and his men rescue Captain James Kinnear from a downed Japanese transport plane. Now they must face the terrors of the wilderness as they try to get back to base with the injured officer. But the relentless Major Higashi and his lackeys […]
Sam Burton was a young officer on a frigate of the Royal Navy. One night, his ship was sunk during an enemy attack and for about six hours, he drifted around the Mediterranean, clinging to a piece of the wreckage. Then he was picked up by a cargo vessel and twelve hours after that he […]
There was something stirring among the pines, where the sun doesn’t ever shine, in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944. American soldiers, ill‑prepared for grim German weather, shivered the whole night through. But the savage winter, cold, and feverish rain, weren’t the only things they had to contend with in those dark and mysterious woods. The […]
Seven men in two dinghies, braving the cold swirling seas to attack a Nazi radar station on a small Norwegian island that rises bleak and forbidding, like a mountain, out of the sea. And the Germans waiting for them — Germans who had been warned of the raid by one of the seven, a traitor […]
The agent codenamed “Condor” had returned home to a hero’s welcome in Berlin. As a saboteur who had eluded the British in their own country, he deserved the highest honours Germany could bestow, now that his dangerous work was over. But this Condor was not what he seemed. His loyalty was to Britain, and now […]
It was a duel, fought high in the hills in Italy. A duel between a Mauser carbine and a Lee Enfield 303. Both riflemen were experts, but it was the Lee Enfield that won. Why? Because it was being fired by Peter Trelawney, who never missed. Peter was a quiet young chap who didn’t look […]
By April 1941, the Nazis had invaded Greece and were pushing the Allies out. Greek, British and Anzac soldiers all fought back bravely, but they were no match. Evacuation was inevitable, however for one Tasmanian, no man was getting left behind! Sergeant Billy Waugh may not have wanted to be a chauffeur to a General, […]
Newly transferred to a desert reconnaissance group, Jim Collingwood was determined to prove he was good enough to serve with the experienced men around him. And on his first patrol he did just that, saving the others from an enemy ambush that could have wiped them all out. But what no-one else in the unit […]
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