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Used to read them all the time as a teenage having seen them in a shop for wheat feels like 20 years so just wondering really. I remember them being utterly brilliant
Yep -WH Smiths...
Gott in himmel!
Hande hoch.
For you Tommy ze war is over. Hande hoch!
That reminds me I've got a stash of them in the shed. I'll have to dig them out and have a read.
Achtung! Minen!
I used to let people jump the queue at the barbers so I could read those!
I haven't thought about Slash Harry's barbers for years.
As above- smiths have some very appealing reprints tempted bit as I'm better at buying than I am reading do already have all the Astrix books and a load of classics to get through.
Donner und blitzen! course they do!
The common reference to the Germans being "sausage-eating squareheads" always amused me.
There was one about an ice-skating saboteur that has stuck in my mind. I was about 10 when I read it and i'm 44 now.
(possibly it was in the Victor comic)
You might enjoy James Holland's WW2 novels about sergeant Jack Tanner. They are exactly like the Commando stories... A tad unrealistic at times ("biceps the size of Bournemouth" etc.) but good fun for all that.
I've seen old copies on Bury market 🙂
I remember my dad taking the mick out of one cos it said something like "You filthy collaborator!" in it. "Like someone would say that in a war!" he mocked. Strange how these moments stay in the memory!
Aaaaiiiieeee!!!
I bought a few reprinted compilations from a discount bookshop a few months ago. Each had four stories in.
Three for £10 iirc
Eat lead fritz!
Seen them for sale in some independents too.
There's a website with them on that a friend told me about. I'll have to try and dig out the link.
I was more a Warlord reader myself....