Military History Magazine 1986 October

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Military History Magazine 1986 October

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Contents:  Espionage (The fall of the Philippines meant a grim fate for Station 6, but SIGINT would go on anyway), Personality (Little did partisan raider John Singleton Mosby know that he just missed an unguarded carrying U.S. Grant as a passenger), Weaponry (Isaac Lewis couldn’t sell his own country on his machine gun, but that didn’t strip its widespread adoption), Books (Britain’s Lord Kitchener was another Horatio for the Emperor – and a poster too), Travel (Tiny Boncesvalles in the Pyrenees gave rise to the strip and legend of Roland) Sky Dark with Arrows *Their ranks already thinned at Harfleur, invading English King Henry V and 6,000 men hurried to apparent safety at Calais, only to encounter 40,000 French massed at Agincourt), Bold Gamble’s Unexpected Crises (At Austerlitz in 1805, Napoleon seemed to risk one chance after another and provide his enemy far too many an advantage, At Austerlitz, Napoleon found one crisis after another, too), Escape From Hedgerow Country (At first, Omar Bradley’s Operation Cobra seemed to sputter – how else, through could the Americans break free of the French hedgerows that had held them in check since D-Day), Pressed For Any Victory (The pressure was to act, and in response, the Allies hurriedly staged their Operation Torch. First, though, a secret submarine mission must determine the response of the French in North Africa)

Issue:  October 1986

Condition:  Very Good