Commando: J-For-Judas - James Swallow

Courage in the face of disaster -- a famous trait of the RAF throughout World War Two. But not in the case of Johnny Bagshott. After condemning his team to a POW camp, can the flighty young navigator work with the devious Hauptmann Hasse to regain standing with his friends... or will he betray them all and help destroy a top British base the country would never recover from?!

(Like the other issue of COMMANDO written by James Swallow that I read, this is an excellent, well-written yarn. It combines both an aviation story and a POW story, two sub-genres of war fiction that I enjoy, and has a suitably despicable villain, as depicted on that great cover by Ian Kennedy. Swallow has written at least one other issue, and I'm sure I'll get to it soon.)

Commando: Fog of War - James Swallow

The last place Private Bill Tasker expected to find himself on his new deployment was at sea -- surely that was for the Navy boys? Yet there he was on the top secret Blackland Sands sea fort, defending the Thames Estuary from V1 bombs and E-boats. But now it's thick with fog, he's lost his pals and a sinister German commando team is hunting him down -- would it be the end of his military career?

(I've read fantasy novels by James Swallow and really enjoyed them. I didn't know he had written for COMMANDO, too. This is a fine story in an unusual setting, making good use of some obscure history. Swallow has written a couple more issues of COMMANDO, and I've already picked them up to read.)