Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Part 18
Operation Hussite – October 2005 Jarvis was having a late morning in his flat at Abergavenny, watching the young woman make them brunch. He had to admit that she was very easy on the eye, [more…]
Blown Periphery
20th Century
The Bomber Command and USAAF Bombing of Dresden, 13-15th February 1945
Pre-Op Test Flights and Briefings On the morning of 13th February it was cold with rain in the Lincolnshire Wolds, after an extremely cold January with a mean temperature of -2 degrees Celsius. By the [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 17
Operation Kratos – 22nd July 2005 She was just another face in the hundreds of thousands of the diverse faces in London that morning. She was wearing jeans and a jacket, her Hijab worn loosely, [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 16
They were being drawn to the mountains like moths to a lamp. The intelligence told them that the Saudi terrorist mastermind had gravitated towards the Tora Bora areas and cave complexes that spanned the Afghan/Pakistan [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 15
They met her at the wagon the following morning and the transformation was remarkable. She was toting a C8 Carbine and a Glock was in a thigh holster and her hair was loose. She had [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 14
They were soon to discover that Afarin Khan had one hell of an attitude. To be fair, it was their own fault and in the attempt to keep her out of harm’s way, she was [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 13
Operation Determine – Afghanistan 2001/2002 In the New Year they reassembled back at their Hereford base and the troop was told they would be operating in Afghanistan for a number of months. Edge was noticeable [more…]
Fiction
Merry Christmas, Sergeant Edge – A Festive Tail
In the winter of 2000, Jarvis passed his Special Forces selection. Following his Pathfinder training he expected the selection process to be a mere formality, but he found it a lot more difficult than he [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 12
Operation Barras – September 2000 Despite the British military presence in the country, Sierra Leone’s civil war rumbled on. The country would remain important to Britain because of its huge resources of diamonds. The West [more…]