Description
Contents: Espionage (The prisoner in a castle at Ham was no emperor, but he had his dreams.), Personality (Fred Burnaby, “Strongman of the British Army”, was the Victorian ideal.), Weaponry (Paperclads, tinclads and bulldogs were the interwar cruisers of the world.), Books (John Gregory Bourke was a U.S. cavalry officer who studied the Indian as an anthropologist.), Travel (As surviving POWs could attest, there really was a bridge over the River Kwai.), Rifles Thrown as Spears (Whether called the “Mule Shoe” or “Bloody Angle”, the salient in Confederate lines at Spotsylvania soon became the worst fight of a long war. Men used rifles as spears and clubs.), Fiery Collision in River Confines (Panic ruled the streets of London as a Dutch fleet wrought havoc at the mouth of the historically-inviolate Thames. They crashed a river-chain and sank all ships before them, it seemed.), Relentless Mechanized Assault (Spearheaded by their neophyte tanks, The British at Cambrai easily smashed through the Hindenburg Line. But did the church bells in England ring celebration too soon?), Headfirst Into Underground Battle (In the Viet Cong’s tunnels, Herbert Thornton held his automatic to one enemy’s face and backed him up. “When we got out, I found that I had backed out 54 people”.)
Issue: February 1987
Condition: Very Good