Description
Contents: Espionage (During the Civil War, an American dentist in Paris strived to prevent France from recognizing the Confederacy), Weaponry (Advanced mobile strategy and tactics helped the Mongols conquer a vast empire), Personality (“They call me a soldier of a statesman” said Boer commander Louis Botha, :In reality I am a farmer and nothing else”), Reviews (For 72 days, roving Zulu patrols held a British invasion force under a strange state of siege), Travel (An estate named after the 1st Infantry Division’s first battle now serves as the official museum of the “Big Red One”_, Perspectives (The Cuban port of Cardenas was the scene of a small but fierce naval engagement – and a remarkable rescue), Doughboy’s Mettle Forged at Cantiony (Launched amid Germany’s general Spring offensive of 1918, the American counterstroke at Cantigny succeeded with extraordinary smoothness. But the longer Americans occupied the town, the more problems arose0, Czech Ace of WWII (In May 1940, fighter pilot-in-exile Frantisek Perina shot down seven enemy aircraft and rose from the rank of Sergeant to lieutenant – all in five busy days), Revolution’s Fate Sealed at Sea (The British were confident of victory over the French as the “line ahead” flag signal ran up the mast of Admiral Sir Thomas Graves’ flagship London. But then, a second signal, “bear down and engage” was also run up – contradicting the first order), Serb Surprise Thwarted at Slivnitza (For two days, the Bulgarians had held their own against the largest Serb invasion force. Then, on November 19, 1885, came disastrous news. The Serbian Morava Division was threatening their rear – and, simultaneously, the Bulgarian capital of Sofia), Christians Collide in Albigensian Crusade (As his men slaughtered the Albigensian heretics of Beziers, a Crusader cried, “Kill them all; God will recognize his own” But when King Pedro II of Aragon, himself a veteran of fighting Muslims in Spain, opposed the Crusaders at Muref, even God would have been confused.
Issue: October 1995
Condition: Very Good