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Immersive short fiction set during World War Two — North Africa, the Pacific, occupied Europe, the skies over Italy. Research-driven stories told from the ground level.

"A Story of Intelligence" voice reading part four in this story

"A Story of Intelligence" voice reading part four in this story

TirpitzpartfourbyBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/173.6358751× A Story of IntelligenceThe Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who

A Story of Intelligence

A Story of Intelligence

The Beast in the Fjord Part One: The Cardinal, 1941–1942 The hut smelled of damp wool and cigarette ash, of men who had been awake too long thinking too hard, and of something else beneath that — the particular tension of people who know that what they are reading has

WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction voice first part

WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction voice first part

Voice reading the first part of this story USS GarfishfirstpartBattlefieldWitnessCom0:00/377.234251× WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish FictionUSS Garfish (SS-411) — South China Sea, fourteen miles southwest of Formosa October 1944 I. The smell came first, as it always did. Diesel and bilge-water and the particular sweetness of two dozen

THE ROAD TO PONTECORVO

THE ROAD TO PONTECORVO

12 May 1944. A story from Operation Strangle — U.S. Twelfth Air Force, Italy. The valley was the greenest thing Ray Cafaro had seen in eleven months. He lay flat in the nose of the Mitchell, his chin maybe two feet above the Plexiglas, and watched Italy roll underneath him

WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction

WW2 Submarine Story – USS Garfish Fiction

USS Garfish (SS-411) — South China Sea, fourteen miles southwest of Formosa October 1944 I. The smell came first, as it always did. Diesel and bilge-water and the particular sweetness of two dozen men's unwashed bodies compressed into a steel cylinder for thirty-one days — it lived in everything, your

The Sound Before the Dawn

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The Sound Before the Dawn

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. The

Battle of the Bulge Fiction – Immersive Story

Battle of the Bulge Fiction – Immersive Story

A story set during the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, Belgium — December 1944 I. She heard the guns before she woke. That was how it had been since Normandy — a part of her never fully slept, some small animal portion of the brain that stayed alert to the frequency of

A Story of the Fall of Singapore 8–15 February 1942

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A Story of the Fall of Singapore 8–15 February 1942