From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian gaol, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge. His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, makes him hell bent on being the best of the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS.…
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen.s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turn near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. He lost his freedom that day in May 1940 and did not regain it again uni…
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. "The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition." He lost hi…
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the 2/7th Queen's Royal Regiment, was certainly ill-prepared when his convoy carrying supplies of petrol and ammunition on its way to Dunkirk took a wrong turning near Abbeville. They met half a dozen German tanks on t…
In December 1944 the German military made their final attempt to end the Second World War by throwing in all their reserves in a desperate attempt to shatter the Allied lines. After breaking through the American-held sector in the Ardennes, two Panzer armies headed for the bridg…
In 'The Rebecca Code', Mark Simmons reveals the story of Operation Kondor and its comedy of errors. It's a tale of the desert, of the hotbed of intrigue that was 1940s Cairo, and of the spy who was to send his reports using a code based on Daphne du Maurier's novel 'Rebecca'.
