Description
Contents: Editorial, Personality (America was reeling from the Japanese punch, when Doolittle stuck back.), Espionage (George Washington supplied the invisible ink and kept close eye on his sophisticated spy tier in New York.), Weaponry (Its appearance of genial silliness masked its true wickedness – the first tank.), Travel (Salamis, where unexpected naval victory preserved the Greek ideal for sightseers of today.), Books (It wasn’t San Juan Hill that Roosevelt’s Rough Riders conquered, but it was the Spanish who took a back seat as the U.S. flexed muscle.), Odds Against the Black Prince (At the outset, it was the raiding English who were outnumbered, but it was a French king who later had to pay ransom.), Their Shots Quit Coming (Artifacts, other new evidence provide a more complete account of how Custer and his troopers were overwhelmed at the Little Big Horn that merciless day.), Fierce Johnny Gurk (Ever since they met in battle 170 years ago, the Nepalese Gurkha and the British Tommy have fought side by side around the world. Johnny Gurk may be diminutive, but his reputation as a warrior doesn’t care a whit.), Failure at the Bulge (For the Germans who came out of the mist and snow, the counterattack was Hitler’s last desperate gamble. Along the 60-mile front that momentarily did bulge, it was the thinly spread Americans who felt the brunt.)
Issue: December 1984
Condition: Very Good