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Three commandos. Cut off. Surrounded. Desperate.
A classic of war fiction and a major film.
They were three soldiers, on watch in the French countryside, their base a disused barn. Three ordinary men seconded into the horrors of World War II, each with his own ideals, his own feelings, his own fears.
Their task was a nightmare of waiting. German forces were stationed over the brow of a hill, and every moment of every day passed in nerve-shattering...
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You can't hide when the sun never sets...
Norway, 1943. A land in the grip of Nazi occupation, where men and women still fight for freedom in constant danger from German murder squads and Norwegian traitors.
It is to find such a traitor that two men are sent from Britain. Their mission is two-fold. First, to expose the traitor and kill them. Second, to carry out a brilliant and daring operation of rescue and sabotage....
Another thrilling commando...
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There's only one way home: straight through the enemy.
From the author of The Long Day's Dying, a tense, gripping novella about a daring commando mission in Occupied France during WW2.
Four commandos parachute into occupied Holland. Their mission: to delay and impede German communications long enough to cover the escape of an Allied unit a few miles away. Soon the countryside is in chaos, and the whole German army is hunting for them.
If they...
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Once you step out of the plane there's no way back...
French Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and reports of vital information on the movement of troops. The details are passed to British Intelligence, who formulate an ingenious plan – to break into the heavily guarded store and steal the information – thus gaining the upper hand for a precious few hours.
This was a job that demanded a tough,...
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Once a traitor, always a traitor?
David Hinton is a traitor, both to Britain and Nazi Germany. A British Nazi sympathiser at the start of the war, he answered Fatherland's call, heading to Fortress Europe and broadcasting Nazi propaganda back over the Channel via radio. But then, growing disillusioned with Hitler, he defected again, returning to London.
Now the Allies want him to make one more broadcast, this time for them, from Strasbourg Radio...
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Sometimes it's the waiting that kills...
Millions of lives could be saved by a top-secret scientific formula. But the professor who holds the information is in the hands of the Germans, closely guarded in a secret laboratory in high-security prison.
A small group of men led by the tough and ruthless Major Rhodes are ordered to smash their way through and rescue the professor. Unseen forces soon threaten the bloody venture, however, and only the...
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