Pinned on a board in every Luftwaffe airfield in Germany was a “Wanted Man” notice: “Wanted for the murder of Major von Dorn — the British pilot who flies a Spitfire bearing the insignia of a red mailed fist.” Adolf Hitler himself would shake the hand of the Nazi pilot who shot down that RAF […]
War had washed over the French village of Rethcourt like tides. The locals had learned to live with them and to look forward to the peace which followed in their wake. But for three Frenchmen in particular, peace seemed destined never to come. Their secret war raged on as they fought with the memory of […]
Gene Danvers has exchanged his busted M8 armour and crew for something a little different in the small town of Hostau, Czechoslovakia. Thousands of Lipizzaner horses have been hoarded by the Nazis and now he must mount a rescue! With the help of a defecting Cossack, a German infantryman and a British POW, he and […]
Fairey Swordfish flew and fought from many dangerous places during the war, but the most risky of all were the tiny aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships. That’s where Lieutenant Paul Drayton of the Fleet Air Arm found himself, and as if the Focke-Wulf Kondors and the weather weren’t enough to contend with, he was […]
Hooky Holland was six foot four, with a steel hook for a left hand. But his right hand had the strength of two. Busty Brown had been a First World War bugler — but could also put a bullet through a stag’s eye at 400 yards. Lindbaur was nearly fifty, and a German. But what […]
Five soldiers seek refuge from a storm, looking for a place safe and warm. Four lay down to rest that night, none are ready for the fight. Three wake to find another gone. Will any of them survive till dawn? Story: Colin Maxwell Art: Manuel Benet Cover: Manuel Benet
You’re either brave or you’re not — that’s what most people think. But for generations a golden goblet had been handed down from father to son in the Vaubois family, and with it went the legend that whomever drank from the vessel would suddenly discover a courage he never knew he had. Now, in the […]
After seeing his entire unit decimated by the Germans, Aussie Sergeant Mick Hutchings won’t let anything stand between him and escaping Greece — not even British Lieutenant Alan Robertson. He doesn’t have to worry for long, though, as a Jerry bomb does the final convincing and Mick drags the injured Tommy officer away with him. But […]
Family loyalties are often stronger than any other ties. That’s why Olaf Milang couldn’t believe what he was told by resistance workers when he returned home to his native Norway on a secret mission. And even when he was taken to his hometown, he found it hard to accept that his own brother was acting […]
Hot off the back of the D-Day landings, the Special Raiding Force are back! And this time Colonel Radcliffe goes to Jimmy Ramsey with a personal request — to rescue his niece, an SOE operative trapped behind German lines. It may be off the record, but Jimmy is determined to prise Marie from the clutches […]
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