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Latest Commando titles with original issue number in brackets where applicable.

Updated: 20th July 2008


4115 OATH OF HONOUR July 2008	4116 THE DEADLY RACE July 2008	4117 (2528) FEARLESS FREDDY July 2008	4118 (2498) THE WRONG WAR July 2008
By April 1945, Sergeant Hans Becker was tired of war. By then it had claimed the lives of all his friends – a close-knit bunch of Wehrmacht cooks who had fought and died bravely. Hans had solemnly promised his comrades that he would seek out their families to tell them of the fate that befell his mates. He knew that in the very heart of the conflict it would be a quest fraught with danger. What the weary cook did not realise that a ruthless Nazi was on his trail with murder on his mind. He cared nothing for Hans’ Oath Of Honour.	In 1940 British soldiers streamed to the coast in the face of the Nazi blitzkrieg, racing for evacuation and safety. Among them were two military policemen; like the rest, racing back to England. For them it was a doubly deadly race…because if they lost an innocent man would die!	His own lads called him “Fearless Freddy” and Squadron-Leader Freddy Bunbury lived up to that reputation…then pushed his luck even further. Some British staff officers didn’t think much of him, though – he was too much of a buccaneer for their taste. The Germans, of course, were sick to the back teeth of Fearless Freddy and the damage he wrought. They couldn’t depend on anybody ever nailing this ace in a fair fight. That’s when the campaign turned dirty – very, very dirty!	Lieutenant Alec Paton was not a happy man when he was put in charge of a Royal Navy gun crew on an armed Dutch freighter. It was skippered by Captain Paul Grootemann who seethed with bitter hatred for the Germans who killed his son. Neither had much respect for the other and when they were ordered to sail for Hong Kong, both felt they were in the wrong place fighting the wrong war. Then they tangled with the Japs and, in the heat of the Pacific where cool heads and calm decisions were called for, no one on board the rusty old freighter was found wanting.
Author: Ferg Handley	Author: Alan Hebden	Author: Alan Hebden	Author: Ian Clark
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: Keith Page	Cover Art: Gordon Livingstone	Cover Art: Jeff Bevan
Interior Art: Olivera	Interior Art: Mike White	Interior Art: Gordon Livingstone	Interior Art: Denis McLoughlin

4111 (2525) HONOUR AMONG ENEMIES June 2008	4112 (2511) DRAGON PILOT June 2008	4113 THE FIGHTING FISHERMAN June 2008	4114 TANK DUEL June 2008
There was a desperate scramble for safety as Joe Bell’s tank was hit, the crew knowing all too well that their Matilda could blow up at any minute. Even out of the metal death-trap their chances of survival looked slim, for the commander of the attacking panzers was in no mood for taking prisoners that day…	It was a long way from piloting an ancient Polikarpov biplane to handling a North American Sabre jet, but that was how Jimmy Hoover had come in his flying career… From the war against the Japanese invading China to the United Nations campaign in Korea. And a friend who had flown a Polikarpov alongside Jimmy in that early war was now fighting in the same air space again…except that now he was the enemy and controlling a deadly Russian Mig fighter!	It was natural for fisherman Peter Marsh to join the Royal Navy in World War 2. It was natural for him to end up serving in high-speed MTBs in the very waters his family had fished for generations. It was definitely not natural for him to swap his triple-engined torpedo-equipped warship for an unarmed sail-powered Dutch workboat. But if a vital mission was to be accomplished the swap would be all in a night’s work for The Fighting Fisherman.	By December 1944 German forces were being steadily pushed back by the Allied war machine. They weren’t quite finished just yet, though. In the Ardennes, tough veteran tank commander Erich Von Stahl and his Panzers were ordered to seize control of a strategically important bridge. He would show the enemy it was dangerous to write off the Wehrmacht. But the German hadn’t counted on the presence of “tankie”, Sergeant Jack Service. He was just as tough, just as resourceful – a force to be reckoned with. And, surprisingly, so was Jack’s clapped-out old self-propelled gun!
Author: C.G. Walker	Author: Ian Clark	Author: Bill Styles	Author: David Heptonstall
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: John Ridgway	Cover Art: Keith Page
Interior Art: Ibanez	Interior Art: Jose Maria Jorge	Interior Art: John Ridgway	Interior Art: Keith Page

4107 OSCAR’S ARMY June 2008	4108 CASTAWAY SQUADRON June 2008	4109 (2504) SPLIT-SECOND TIMING June 2008	4110 (2514) DEATH DUEL June 2008
For six long years, Oscar Pohl had served the German Army. He had fought his way from one side of Europe to the other and back again. He had seen many friends die yet he had always survived. Now he was in Berlin, caught in the violent death throes of the Nazi regime, and his survivor’s luck was about to run out. The only question now was who would kill him…the Russians or the Nazi fanatics he had crossed? One thing was for sure, Oscar’s army of untried, half-trained naval cadets looked more liability than life-saver.	Fresh from battling the German navy in the Atlantic, Bob’s Fox’s squadron of Seafire fighters was posted to the Far East to carry on the fight there. When a Japanese surprise attack crippled their carrier, Bob’s team were left with no fuel, no radios, not even a place to land – except a remote island in the Indian ocean. Truly they were a Castaway Squadron.	The secret German installation at the head of a fjord in Occupied Norway, so well-guarded as to be virtually impregnable, had to be destroyed. It would require a strike involving Army, Navy and Air Force, working to a strict timetable, to crack the defences. Lieutenant Rolf Andersen, co-ordinator on the Norwegian side, had enough trouble avoiding capture by the Germans. But, as zero-hour came and went, he realised it had all gone wrong, and only he had any chance of trying to salvage the operation…	Badly wounded and shaken up in the fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific, Lieutenant Chuck Kingman had been shipped home to America. Then, when he was fit again, he was sent on to wage war in Europe. Now he was in the thick of the action in Italy, raising his M3 sub-machine gun to open fire, all the old fears racing back as his unbelieving eyes saw Japs charging towards him…every one of them in American uniform.
Author: Mike Knowles	Author: Alan Hebden	Author: Roger Sanderson	Author: Alan Hebden
Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: Carlos Pino	Cover Art: Gordon Livingstone	Cover Art: Ron Brown
Interior Art: Vila	Interior Art: Carlos Pino	Interior Art: Gordon Livingstone	Interior Art: Garijo

4103 (2448) WARRIOR KING May 2008	4104 (2446) IRON CROSS YANK May 2008	4105 STRIKE SQUAD May 2008	4106 BIG GUN… …BIG TARGET May 2008
Bodyguard to a king, that was Captain Vic Lacey’s job. Keeping the royal personage of Stefan of Brogavia out of harm’s way. But how do you tell a king to watch his step when he deliberately sets out to break every rule in the book in order to fight the Nazis at every turn? Bodyguard to a king was not an easy job at all!	Having fought for the Luftwaffe at the end of World War Two, Willi Radmacher certainly wasn’t your average US Air Force pilot, but there was no doubting his skill, courage and experience. Some American pilots refused to let him forget his past, though. To them he was still a Kraut, an Iron Cross Yank, an enemy not to be trusted…	The Western Front, 1917. Second-Lieutenant Harry Jackson had witnessed the death and carnage of the trenches. However, as an observer, he saw his Italian allies in action and was amazed at the fledgling work of the Arditi – or “Brave Ones” – army assault units with special skills in close combat. Harry knew that many British lives could be saved if his superiors would sanction the same kind of training, but his ideas were ignored. He had a solution, though – the men would have to learn in secret!	Captain Mike Stewart was a Royal Artillery veteran giving his all in the vicious and desperate fighting at the Anzio beachhead in Italy at the start of 1944. Mike knew a lot about high ordnance artillery, but even he was in awe of the absolute monster of a gun that the Germans were poised to use against the Allies. This deadly weapon had to be stopped – at all costs…
Author: Alan Hebden	Author: Ian Clark	Author: Ferg Handley	Author: Alan Hebden
Cover Art: Ron Brown	Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: Ian Kennedy	Cover Art: Carlos Pino
Interior Art: Janek Matysiak	Interior Art: Jose Maria Jorge	Interior Art: Garijo	Interior Art: Carlos Pino

4099 H-BOAT VENGEANCE May 2008	4100 THE NAZI HUNTER May 2008	4101 (2458) U-BOAT CURSE May 2008	4102 (2456) AT GROUND LEVEL! May 2008
So, there you are, trapped in an oversized fishing net by the man who has murdered your crew and trapped you by planting a ruthless killer in your command. Now what are you going to do? What you’re going to do, if you’re Dutch Navy Captain Piet De Groot is swear to get even, to bring vengeance down upon that Nazi. The only problem is how3 you’re going to do it.	In the shattered remains of Germany’s “Thousand Year Reich” in 1945, intelligence officer Captain Alan Bishop’s job was to track down those Nazis trying to escape justice. It was often a dirty job but Alan was a professional. Then he was assigned to track down a vicious Gestapo killer called Fritz Seibold and things got personal, very personal.	Ghosts don’t exist, everybody knows that. And definitely not the ghost of a solid steel Nazi U-Boat or her phantom skipper. No, you can’t expect anybody to believe that sort of nonsense. But a word of warning. Be careful what you say to a certain British Merchant Navy captain and his hard-fisted crew. They know more than most about the… U-BOAT CURSE	It was an entirely new war for Bob Crane and Tubby Evans. One minute they were crewing a Beaufighter over Burma and the next they were down in the jungle, unwilling footsloggers in a Chindit raiding column behind Jap lines. They had to learn the rules of survival fast or die – for neither the jungle nor the Japs were taking prisoners.
Author: Alan Hebden	Author: Mike Knowles	Author: Bernard Gregg	Author: R. A. Montague
Cover Art: John Ridgway	Cover Art: Nicholas Forder	Cover Art: Jeff Bevan	Cover Art: Gordon Livingstone
Interior Art: John Ridgway	Interior Art: Morahin	Interior Art: Denis McLoughlin	Interior Art: Gordon Livingstone

Vic Whittle 2008