Description
Contents: Editorial, Espionage (In pursuit of turncoat Benedict Arnold, Washington dispatched a phony deserter.), Personality (Napoleon’s Bravest of the Brave proved himself in the retreat from Russia.), Weaponry (The big railguns supplied by the U.S. Navy took a minute to reach their target.), Travel (Virginia’s countryside, cities and towns echo the Civil War hauntingly.), Books (One way to have won in Vietnam would have been to focus U.S. deployment.), Salvation of Taylor’s Little Army (At Buena Vista, Jefferson Davis, Zachary Taylor and Santa Ana each had a personal stake in the outcome. Braxton Bragg had his guns.), Legend Etched on Desert Sand (Wavering, the lieard the bigger’s unexpected order to charge. Eight U.S. Marines then obediently surged forward against the Arab defenders ahead.), Dig Until You are Safe (Callipoli was a cruel peninsula to the Allied troops who tried to storm it after naval assault on the prized Dardanelles failed to force passage. Every escalation was too little, to late.), No Beaches To Land On (Inchon was MacArthur’s great gamble – no beaches, 30-foot ties, mudflats and like impediments only would guarantee the North Korean enemy’s surprise, he calculated.)
Issue: December 1985
Condition: Very Good