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Contents: Could Custer Have Won? (New research suggests the Boy General – intent on taking hostages – stayed on the offensive at Little BigHorn); Cold, Hard Numbers (How data and Napoleon Bonaparte’s 18123 march on Moscow inspired a new kind of battle map); When Soldiers Slaughter A Time To Kill (Why were the knights of the First Crusade so brutal?); Kick The Bully (Leading Irish rebels against Britain in 1921, Michael Collins wrote the script for the Vietcong and Taliban); Burr In The Saddle (In the American Revolution, the young Aaron Burr displayed the martial spirit that would later prove his undoing); Portfolio Beauty And The Bullet (Fashion maven Cecil Beaton’s World War II photographs); Needle Guns In Denmark (The use of breechloaders at an 1864 battle foretold the advent of mechanized death); Bringing Home U.S. War Dead Rest In Peace? (The American public fought plans to bury World War I soldiers abroad, giving rise to a tradition that is now sacred); Until They Are Home (Decades after Carlson’s Raiders stormed Makin Island, forensic sleuths found the remains of the men who died) Departments – Letters From MHQ; Flashback; Comments; Experience (Brits prepare for the Falklands War); Behind The Lines (Japanese “comfort women”) At The Front – The War List (World-class aces); Honor Roll (1 tanker, 2 wars, 3 medals); Weapons Check (Trebuchet); Fighting Words (Vietnam vernacular); Drawn & Quartered (Spain’s defiant colonies, 1896); Battle Schemes (Louis XIV’s privateers in Cartagena) Culture Of War – Museum Watch; Reviews (Britain’s best frigate commander, H. W. Brands on Ulysses Grant; Minuteman missiles; the virtual Clasuewitz, a William Colby documentary; and Lincoln as commander in chief); Artists (Pilot and novelist James Salter); Fiction (In the thick of the Battle of Poitiers, 1356)
Issue: Winter 2013
Condition: Very Good