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Compilation of three commando comics : 

Top-secret Cargo, 1989; 
   Tom Vale joins an aussie commando outfit as
   an outsider and emerges a hero in an effort
   to prevent the Japanese shipping pitchblende
   ore from Borneo.

A shot from the shadows, 1989;
   Ted Piggott, a Scottish outdoorsman and game
   stalker, signs up with the Highlands regiment
   and as a crack shot, becomes a sniper; taking
   out six jerries singlehandedly in the final
   episode.

Dragon riders;
   Set in Britain in Roman times, the
   tribulations of the Caratae warrior tribe
   under the cruel romans.
    opening line:
     	[the Roman empire] was the mightiest
	civilisation ever seen, stretching
	from Asia to the Atlantic and from
	Africa to the North Sea.
	    (hubris on the Roman empire; what of
		not the "Mongol civilization"?)