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How Prussia Learned to Fight, 1757–1870

What the Drums No Longer Said Frederick II, Scharnhorst, Moltke, the Duke of Brunswick, MacMahon, Wimpffen, and Napoleon III are historical figures, and the battles here follow the documented record as closely as fiction allows. Martin Lenz, Ludwig von Arnstett, Georg Bartel, and Reinhold Achterberg never existed. This time the

The hunt for Saddam Hussein, audio

Operation Red Dawn

The hunt for Saddam Hussein, audio

This is a work of historical fiction. The operation, dates, locations, units, and outcome are drawn from the public record. The named operators — Holt, Ochoa, Webb — are invented composites; no real operator's identity from this raid has ever been publicly released, and none is claimed here. The Hunt

A story of the SBS, Helmand Province, June 2006, audio

Operation Ilois

A story of the SBS, Helmand Province, June 2006, audio

The Ditch at Sangin The Ditch at Sangin BattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/810.9352381× Author's Note This story dramatises Operation Ilois, a real British Special Boat Service (SBS) action in the Sangin district of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in June 2006. A sixteen-man team from C Squadron SBS and the

A story of the Special Boat Service, Kabul, 15 April 2012

Story dramatises a real action

A story of the Special Boat Service, Kabul, 15 April 2012

Eight and a Half Hours The muezzin's call came in twice that morning before the shooting started, and Corporal Callum Fraser lay on a rooftop in Wazir Akbar Khan with his cheek against warm concrete and thought, not for the first time, that Kabul was the strangest posting

Lunar Module Eagle

A story of Apollo 11

Cycle Stealing "Program alarm. It's a 1202." — Neil Armstrong, Lunar Module Eagle, 20 July 1969, 20:17 UTC I. Houston, Texas & Cambridge, Massachusetts — 20 July 1969 Steve Bales had a console, a headset, and about twenty seconds. The Mission Operations Control Room smelled the way

Iranian Embassy siege story

Six Days at Prince's Gate A Story of Operation Nimrod, 30 April – 5 May 1980 A work of historical fiction Part One: The Call-Out The telephone in the corridor outside the squadron interest room rang twice before anyone moved, because in Hereford in the spring of 1980

The Quesada Expedition and the Fall of Bacatá, 1536–1537

Audio story The Quesada Expedition BattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/2403.5201361×

The Field at Cannae

Sosylus of Lacedaemon and Hannibal Barca

The Fourth Book Being the eighth book of Sosylus of Lacedaemon, which no one commissioned Ephesus, in the consulship of Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Quintus Fabius Labeo (the thirty-third year after the field at Cannae) The agent wanted the fourth book and nothing else. He was a Rhodian, or

Operation Desert Storm

Operation Desert Storm

Left Hook A story of Operation Desert Storm I. Riyadh — 6 August 1990 The map wasn't finished yet. That was the first thing Captain Diane Kessler noticed when she was walked into the annex behind the Ministry of Defense and Aviation building in Riyadh — a room still smelling

Operation Jericho

de Havilland Mosquito

Operation Jericho

The Straight Road A story of the de Havilland Mosquito. Based on the true events of Operation Jericho, 18 February 1944. The Amiens raid, its squadrons, timings, and the deaths of Group Captain Percy Pickard and Flight Lieutenant Bill Broadley are drawn from the historical record. Flying Officer Tom Garrety,

The Golden Age of Piracy

The Golden Age of Piracy

Articles of Agreement A story of the Golden Age of Piracy, 1716–1718 I. HMS Seaflower, the Bahama Channel — March 1716 The cat came down nine times, and Thomas Rooke counted every one, because counting was the only thing left him. One. The rope bit through the wet shirt they&

Jane Horney, documentary-drama

Jane Horney, documentary-drama

Eskimå A documentary-drama chapter on the life and death of Jane Horney (1918–1945) Prologue — Skåne, the Present The archive box is smaller than she expected boxes like this to be — a single grey folder-file, the security police's stamp faded to the colour of weak tea,

“The Weight of Signals”

Battle of Trafalgar

“The Weight of Signals”

Further reading, follow link: The Weight of SignalsThe Battle of Trafalgar.Battlefield WitnessAnders Lawerny