Description
Contents: Espionage (This German “mole” was a senior citizen when tapped for duty a third time, a third war.), Personality (Ruthless but clever, Genghis Khanonce set birds and cats afire to to destroy a city.), Weaponry (An American solves the puzzle of automation for the machine gun.), Travel (In New Orleans, they still recall the battle that needn’t have been fought.), Books (In her latest best-seller, popular historian Barbara Tuchman cites for instances of apparent human “folly”.), Nelson’s Twilight Thunder (Slipping into shallow water around the anchored French fleet, Admiral Nelson’s power-laden squadron dealt Napoleon’s Eastern ambitions a devastating blow.), In Order to End Neutrality (Wittingly or not, these gallant young aviators Americaine contributed to pressure on the U.S. to enter Europe’s Great War. Committed to a noble cause, the volunteers of the Lafayette Escartille flew their hearts out for France.), That Terrible First Day (In a recently found Civil War memoir, a young Ohio artilleryman recalls his baptism of fire at “terrible” Shiloh and the many slogging days to follow.), First Strike at River Drang (For the untested U.S. airmobile troops in Vietnam, contact with the enemy was the goal and the battle at Ia Drang their initial strike. For the first time in the war, a major American force collided with the North Vietnamese, and it was the NVA who left with “tail between his legs”.)
Issue: October 1984
Condition: Very Good