Description
Contents: Espionage (Development of two weapons confused British efforts to track down Hitler’s vengeance arsenal.), Personality (After providing the American Revolution his considerable engineering skills, this Polish hero returned to a peasant army armed with scythes.), Weaponry (Floating to the rescue of the beleaguered Schutztruppe in German East Africa was the rigid airship L59.), Books (Rare is the oral history that builds a story, but here’s one that does – with Korea the setting.), Travel (A bit of England in Carolina is the legacy of fallen warriors and allies from World War II.), Locked in Sinister Embrace (When French Admiral Villeneuve emerged from Cadiz with his 33 mammoth warships, Horatio Nelson awaited him with only 27, often smaller, ships-of-the-line. This was Trafalgar, where Nelson would break with naval tradition – and one of the two admirals would die.), Charge Most Regretted (Makeshift dog-tags were the concern of the Union soldiers on the eve of Cold Harbor, where Ulysses S. Grant would continue his strategy of bludgeoning Robert E. Lee’s army – where the entrenched Lee could take advantage of every turn and twist of familiar ground.), Mutiny’s Grim Reprisals (At Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow and many other points raged the weeks-long Sepoy Rebellion – every military advantage to the mutineers and terrifying acts of reprisal by both sides.), At War’s Farthest End (In Burma during World War II, the odds against the Allies always were desperate. Accorded low priority and minimal supplies, the colorful commanders on the scene sometimes seemed as much at war with each other as with the jungle-wise Japanese.)
Issue: June 1986
Condition: Very Good