Historical Stories

In a mid-1930s London suburb, as storm clouds rise over the growing militaristic resurgence in Germany, a window cleaner shows his young son the ropes of his business and reminisces in thoughts and conversations about the Great War.

Average Joe was damaged in the First World War, shot down for the third time unlucky, often quipping that losing a leg and an ear he was "less than average" and at 43 was a confirmed bachelor. Then he met heavily pregnant widow Anjelica, "call me Anjie", but Joe thought she was an angel. And she was until her first husband turned up Out of the blue like a bad penny. Unusually, this story starts at the End rather than the Beginning.

A Story in the War in the Pacific Universe
While Billy is with the Marines at Tarawa, Kitty is tempted at home.

Corporal Harry Hamlin has just been promoted to Sergeant and put in charge of a Squad of Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division on the 16th of December 1944. Unbeknownst to him this is the first day of what will be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Christmas is only 8 days away; Harry and his fellow paratroopers may gain a better appreciation of the little things in life. But they will have to survive fierce combat and the coldest winter in a hundred years!

Or, an account of a Young Lad's self-rescue from Accidental Marooning on a Hostile Shore and his two year trek across Untamed Wilderness and Rugged icy Mountains and endless Barren Windblown Plains evading Wild Beasts and Savage Red Indians and Bestial Spaniards to return to the Former Colonies of His Majesty Geo III by the Grace of God. How He Fared.

This is the story of a man who starts out as a bounty hunter, but winds up on a holy crusade! His new career is one of finding kidnappers of young girls to be sold as sex slaves. This is his fight against that most despicable of crimes.

A Gordy and Weena Adventure
This is how Henry Hollister got to Queensland and participated in the expansion of the railways.

Craig McCallister made his living as a stuntman and double in Western movies. He was the fastest draw in Hollywood. He was constantly in demand to double for the hero when fast gun action was required. One day a weird accident on the set flipped him back in time to the Old West. This is the story of how he adapted and made a success of the life he had portrayed. Join him in what became a life and death struggle as he found happiness in the Wild West.