If it hadn't been for the shopkeeper in Heraklion, Cotton might never have been involved ...In the spring of 1941 the Nazis were storming their way through Greece. The Loukia was crucial to the British cause and the Greek resistance - and her cargo even more so. When the Loukia is wrecked in enem...
Big Balls is number one!’ he shouted over the noise of the road. He had to shout, because even though we were riding in a Rolls Royce, the smoothest and most luxurious car on that road, it was a convertible, and even the world’s best engineers could do nothing about the sound of rubber rolling ag...
They were already too late, because there was still a gap ten miles wide through which the French and the British were streaming at full speed. In the west, however, the Germans were still moving along the coast and Leutnant Heinrich-Robert Hinze, in his curiously impassive, mandarin manner, was ...
He was on the verandah drinking his coffee when a car came tearing into the town, trailing a cloud of dust, and pulled up at the gendarmerie he had set up. A man jumped out and ran inside.Guidotti sat up, interested, wondering what could have caused such urgency. There had been no sign even of Br...
To her surprise, she found she had both blankets over her, and she felt round in sudden terror for Sammy. Then she saw him sitting behind one of the rocky krantzes, holding the Mauser, his eyes calm with the bland blankness of a dog in the sun, the same controlled fatalistic expression on his fac...
‘So these survivors were picked up and there was another boat, and the Luftwaffe missed it.’Ehrhardt shrugged. ‘According to my sergeant, Herr Major, there were no footprints leading from the beach -- only into the sea -- and he could only imagine, since the boat and the rubber dinghy were missin...
@page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } 6A plan was formulated to enable the raiding force to make a landing. ‘Heard what they’re calling us, sir?’ Amos asked Hockold the next morning. ‘The Cut-Price Commandos. Somebody coined it last evening and it’s spread like wildfire. I ...