Description
Contents: Espionage (The Czar’s agent in Tibet was a shrewd Buriat Monk who cast the Russian ruler in savior’s role.), Weaponry (The Confederate submarine Hunley was a death trap – and the first submarine to sink an enemy warship.), Personality (Doug Campbell was the first American air Ace of all time.), Books (Sherman and Vietnam don’t really go together.), Travel (In California’s lava beds, the ragtag Modoc Indians made things exceedingly difficult for a superior U.S. Army force.), Hurricane of Sword and Horse (Eylau was only a wretched village, but as the Russians and Napoleon’s legions met, the fighting was first house to house and then, the finest day for the Emperor’s cavalry, the thundering gallop of 24 squadrons clad in steel.), Greatest of All Invasions (The two invasions planned for the Japanese home islands 40 years ago would have produced casualties in the millions and were only averted by America’s use of the atomic bomb instead.), Siege by Righteous Fists (For 53 days of siege by rebellious Chinese Boxers in Peking, the end looked imminent every day for the multi-national band cornered in the city’s Legation Quarter.), Firestorm Below Suribachi (Seeking a cost that would force American negotiations rather than fighting, the Japanese at Iwo Jima changed tactics and allowed 6,500 U.S. Marines a beachhead in the spongy volcanic sand, then began to mow them down.)
Issue: August 1985
Condition: Very Good