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Commando #1.5
COMMANDO (Short Bursts): The Train to Calais
This is a Short Story of approximately 8,400 words...June, 1941. The French partisan Andre Bouchard - known as "The Butcher of Calais" for his bloody crusade against the Nazis - leads a desperate band of resistance fighters to strike a blow against the occupying German army. Their derail a train traveling to Calais carrying German troops and their supplies, then kill every living soul on board.Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the fate of an innocent village boy becomes entangled with Bouchard's plot. Will he risk the success of the mission to save the boy, or will the Butcher of Calais strike at his enemies, no matter the consequences?The Train to Calais is the first in the Short Bursts series of short stories related to the COMMANDO World War Two adventure novels. It is related to events that take place in Operation Arrowhead and Operation Bedlam, but can be enjoyed on its own.
- GenresWorld War II
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 30, 2012
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
August 18, 2017
I don't do book reviews........ I read the book and if I liked it I give it up to 5 stars, if I didn't then it gets a 2, if I didn't finish then it's a 1, that's it I'm afraid.
I read it, I like it, I want more from the author.
As with a vast number of Kindle books there might be the odd spelling and punctuation errors.
After reading well over 500 Kindle books of all types and subjects you get use to them and they become less noticeable, unless they effect the story.
The more these errors effect the story the less stars I give it even if the story is a good one.
I read it, I like it, I want more from the author.
As with a vast number of Kindle books there might be the odd spelling and punctuation errors.
After reading well over 500 Kindle books of all types and subjects you get use to them and they become less noticeable, unless they effect the story.
The more these errors effect the story the less stars I give it even if the story is a good one.
June 16, 2020
Nice little short story between commando 1 and 2.
October 8, 2016
Extremely short book but action packed.
This was an extremely short book but it was well written and had me wanting for more. It complements the first two books in the Commando series and deals with the role of the "resistance" during one of their well documented operations at blowing tracks. Though this is a work of fiction, the gritty realism of what happened when the resistance were at work during the war is captured brilliantly for such a short story.
This was an extremely short book but it was well written and had me wanting for more. It complements the first two books in the Commando series and deals with the role of the "resistance" during one of their well documented operations at blowing tracks. Though this is a work of fiction, the gritty realism of what happened when the resistance were at work during the war is captured brilliantly for such a short story.
November 5, 2012
This is a short story that tides one over until Badelaire's next Commando novel comes out; it provides a bit more information on some of the characters previously met in COMMANDO: Operation Arrowhead as well as maybe gives a hint of what will be seen in the next Commando novel.
July 30, 2013
A tale of one group of French resistance fighters during WWII, their efforts to take out a train of German soldiers and equioment, and the resulting reprisals by the Nazis.
Though fiction, based on some truths in the war.
Though fiction, based on some truths in the war.
July 30, 2013
Short story of military fiction about the French Resistence and their war against the Nazi
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