Description
Contents: Editorial, Weaponry (To conquer the island empire of the Aztecs, Hernando Cortes built himself a small navy.), Personality (Known as “The Good Knight”, William Marshal of England, was considered the greatest fighting man of his age.), Espionage (:Blinker” Hall’s specialty in naval intelligence was fooling the enemy’s agents on land and his ships at sea.), Travel (The universal “warbird” of the ages may be the lowly and genteel pigeon.), Books (As Marshals of the Empire, Napoleon’s chief lieutenants were both dazzling and sometimes flawed.), Desperate Victory Overshadowed (Ligny would have been a milestone victory of the Napoleonic wars, if only Waterloo hadn’t followed just two days later. At Ligny, even Napoleon fears for his normally ascendant star.), Sunday Morning Ambush (As the isolated American infantrymen rose for breakfast in the Philippines, they still were shocked at news of President McKinley’s assassination. In seconds there would be a worse shock – an ambush by hundreds of bolo-swinging natives.), Gallant Last Ride (The Union general reined in his horse so abruptly, it skidded on its haunches. He politely tipped his hat to the Rebel skirmishers pouring from the nearby woods, then spurred his mount forward.), No Room For Retreat (For the Americans and South Koreans bottled up in the Pusan Perimeter, there could be no more withdrawals or “readjustments of the line”.
Issue: August 1987
Condition: Very Good