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Contents: Canadian Capture Of Vimy Ridge (In April 1917, the flint-hard Canadian Corps captured the toughest German bastion on the Western Front at Vimy Ridge. It was the greatest Allied victory to that point in World War I); Sparta Versus Athens (In the fifth century BC, the two great city-states of Greece waged a decades-long war for dominance. At stake were contrasting approaches to both war and peace); Turning Back The Turks (To combat the continuing threat of the Ottoman Empire, Austrian Emperor Leopold I sent an Imperial army under untested Prince Eugene of Savoy to strike the Turkish army at Zenta, 80 miles northwest of Belgrade); Mexican-American Clash At San Pasqual (Early in the Mexican War, American General Stephan Watts Kearny let his 1,700-man army across New Mexico and into California. On December 6, 1846, at San Pasqual, the two sides collided in battle); Vinegar Joe And The Burma Road (Following the Japanese conquest of Burma in 1942, American General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell trained two divisions of Chinese Nationalist forces to reopen the Burma Road from India to China. He had a score to settle with the occupiers) Columns – Editorial; Soldiers; Weapons; Intelligence; Militaria; Games; Books
Issue: February 2010
Condition: Very Good