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Contents: Crusade’s Strange Twist (After repulsing the crusaders’ assault on April 9, 1204, Byzantine Emperor Alexius V (the third Emperor Alexius in a year) declared to his people (I am the best emperor you have ever had. I will dishonor and hang them all.”), Fighter Pilot’s Paradise (On June 3, 1942, Italian pilot Fahero Gelli found himself alone over Malta, attacked by seven Super-marine Spitfires. “I whipped my Macchi around, firing all over the place.” he recalled. The next thing I knew a Spitfire was going down, smoking.), Steady, Boys, Steady! (Captain David G. Farragut’s decision to dash past the two forts guarding the approach to New Orleans was complicated by a barricade of chained hulks across the Mississippi and a polyglot collection of Confederate warships.), Boers’ Worst Enemies (Surrounded at Elands River and urged to surrender by the Boers, the British colonel replied “Even if I wished to surrender to you – and I don’t – I am commanding Australians who would cut my throat if I accepted your offer”), Unsung War Artists (Aficionados of military art have praised the “patriotic” works of French, British and American military painters while labeling the less widely viewed works of German Artists “militaristic”.), Perspectives (When Johann Sebastian Bach visited Potsdam in 1747, he found King Frederick the Great ready to talk music), Personality (In 1841, Sweden entered the war against Napoleon – led by one of the French Emperor’s former marshals.), Weaponry (Too poor to bear arms, the rowers of Athenian triremes strained to turn their ships into deadly weapons.), Espionage (On April 30, 1945, Adolph Hitler committed suicide – just as the OSS had predicted.), Books (Whether as freedom fighters or oppressors, the exuberant Cossacks did nothing in half measures.), Travel (Henry VIII divorced his wife – then fortified the English coast against invasion)
Issue: August 1993
Condition: Very Good