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Green Devils of Monte Cassino

A German Fallschirmjäger's War

Green Devils of Monte Cassino

A German Fallschirmjäger's War, November 1943 – May 1944 I. The Road Below San Angelo November 1943 The trucks came down from the abbey at night, without headlamps, and the men of 6. Kompanie watched them pass from the ditch above the Via Casilina with the particular boredom of

A British rescue operation

A British rescue operation

D Company, 1 PARA. Sierra Leone. 10 September 2000. I. The Chinook smelled of JP-8 aviation fuel, wet kit, and the particular quiet of men who had been told the odds and chosen not to discuss them. Danny Kavanagh sat with his SA80 between his knees and the dark

Fort Eben-Emael 1940 – Historical Fiction

Fort Eben-Emael 1940 – Historical Fiction

Fort Eben-Emael, Belgium — 10 May 1940, 04:18–06:00 I. The Silence Before The rope went slack and then it was gone. Gefreiter Paul Renner felt it the way you feel a hand releasing yours in the dark — not the thing itself, only the absence of the thing.