CASCA - PANZER SOLDIER
Casca is involved in the nightmare Battle of Kursk in which the Russians win, and the months following are a series of retreats in the face of overwhelming odds. Most of Casca's friends die, except for the giant Gus, and Casca is taken prisoner by the Nazi high command who turn out to be members of the Brotherhood of the Lamb. Hitler meets Casca in the last days of the Reich in Berlin and lets him go just before his death, which is helped by Casca.
CASCA THE LEGIONNAIRE
Escaping from Berlin Casca is captured by the French and is recruited into the French Foreign Legion and flown out to Indo-China where they are fighting the Vietnamese. Casca meets up with Gus again and the two battle in the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954) which France loses. The two friends are shipped out to return to North Africa.
THEORETICAL TIMELINE and CASCA - DESERT MERCENARY
The Algerian war provides Casca and Gus with plenty of action but both buy their way out when their time comes up and take on mercenary roles,including a job to rescue two young Americans from a fanatical Tuareg leader (Casca - Desert Mercenary). In 1963 Casca goes back to Indo-China and Laos (see Soldier of Fortune) and fights for the US army.
CASCA THE PHOENIX
Recruited to help prevent a Viet assassin squad from carrying out their plans, Casca is captured by his enemy but escapes and in a gory climax leads the chasing communists into a crocodile-infested trap. However Casca is badly wounded and has to be taken to a field army hospital for medical attention and is delivered into the hands of Julius Goldman.
CASCA - SOLDIER OF GIDEON
Spending a few years in New Zealand Casca hears of the latest Arab-Israeli conflict and signs up to fight in the Israeli army with some friends. They are sent to fight the Egyptians and have to take a number of fortresses. After these have been captured,they are sent to Jerusalem to fight the Jordanians, and finally to the Golan Heights against the Syrians. Within a week Israel has defeated all enemies but Casca is the only one of the group of friends who signed up left alive.
Theoretical timeline plus two Casca stories, Soldier of Fortune (1976) and African Mercenary (1977).
Casca's adventures as a mercenary continue past 1973 in two books; in Soldier of Fortune he is based in Singapore and sent on a mission to rescue a Chinese family trapped in Cambodia. He falls in love with one of the Chinese, Yu Li, and sets up home with her in the Cameron Highlands of Thailand. Shortly afterwards he is sent to dispose of an African dictator Matthew Dzombe but is betrayed after accomplishing this by some of his allies. Gus, reunited with him once more, dies on this mission.
In the wake of this Casca goes to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets (1979) and when this war peters out the Croat-Serb conflict of the 1990s is where he is to be found.
CASCA - IMMORTAL DRAGON
Casca is pulled out of hiding in Thailand to take part in an anti-terrorist campaign, battling from Pakistan and India to the United States where the final showdown takes place.