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Contents: Last Of The Gray Phantoms (With the Confederacy crumbling, swift and daring blockade-runners such as Banshee II and Owl made desperate runs across the high seas into the last remaining Southern ports); Misplaced Aggression (Seeking an advantage over its longtime Spartan rivals, Athens launched an ill-conceived invasion of Sicily, only to have it falter outside the walls of Syracuse); Working On The Railway Of Death (American sailor Howard Brooks survived the Battle of Sunda Strait, only to slave away in the Burmese jungles as a prisoner of war); Royal Mauling At Mollwitz (Frederick the Great’s invasion of Austrian-held Silesia in 1740 was the first step in Prussia’s rise to becoming one of Europe’s greatest military powers); New Borders, Old Enemies: The Iran-Iraq War (Mistakenly believing Iran to be fatally weakened by internal strife, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched a sneak attack across the border in the fall of 1980, initiating eight years of unparalleled savagery and suffering) Columns – Editorial; Weapons; Soldiers; Intelligence; Militaria; Books; Games
Issue: October 2007
Condition: Very Good