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Contents: Espionage (A story lies behind this unkempt grave, a story of deceit and betrayal and coverup on grand scale. The Dreyfus story! J’Accuse.), Weaponry (The long rifle often tipped the scales for the Patriot-frontiersmen of the Revolutionary War.), Personality (The English visitor was doing fine as a Confederate cavalry advisor…but his further adventures went far afield indeed!), Books (Let us not forget that in that rockets’ red glare was the manifestation of a weapon that already was “old”.), Travel (Elegant and historic today in the one-time home in Washington, D.C., of short-lived American hero Stephen Decatur.), Giant Repeatedly Thwarted (First once, then twice, little Serbia turned back the invading giant in World War I…but could her peasant armies withstand a third pummeling by mighty Austria that same year?), Yank in the RAF (Brewster Morgan left a nation at peace to become one of the first Americans to go to war against Nazi Germany. He flew with the Royal Air Force…then just missed the Great Escape.), One Campaign Too Many (For years, Napoleon’s much-favored child of victory was Andre Massena. But then came the bitter campaign of the Iberian Peninsula in 1810 and 1811.), Bullets Could Not Miss (In the wastelands of Central Sudan, the religious zealot called the Mahdi awaited the bumbling, ill-trained Egyptian army led by British General William Hicks. Another “Last Stand” was in the making.)
Issue: June 1991
Condition: Very Good