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Contents: Roman Armageddon At Pharsalus (On a barren plain in central Greece, Caesar and Pompey met on August 9, 48 BC to determine which one of them would assume sole control of the Roman Empire); Overrun In Alsace (A U.S. armored infantry company faced the fury of the Wehrmacht’s Operation Nordwind on New Year’s Day 1945. It’s men held on as long as humanly possible); Jacobite Victory At Prestonpans (The first real blood in the Forty-Five Rebellion was drawn when Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebels squared off against government forces led by Sir John Cope in a brief but bloody clash near Edinburgh); Tripoli Will Be Italian (The Italians sought in 1911 to drive the Ottoman Turks from Tripolitana and Cyrenaica. The initial Italian thrust met opposition the following year when Enver Bey rallied local Arabs to support the Ottoman cause in the short-lived Italian-Turkish War); France’s Nightmare In Indochina (Zealous French missionaries’ efforts in Indochina ignited a series of savage conflicts that pitted the French Foreign Legion against the Annamese and China’s Black Flag Army) Columns – Editorial; Soldiers; Weapons; Intelligence; Militaria; Books; Games
Issue: July 2013
Condition: Very Good