Description
Contents: Editorial, Personality (Arminius, born into the shackled German tribes, challenged the bondage of Rome and its legions), Espionage (Once though intelligence-dry, the medieval era in fact was awakening to the spy’s usefulness), Weaponry (From ancient days in China, use of war rockets was sporadic – but many toyed with their thundering potential), Travel (The Duke of Wessington won his military spurs in India, but it was in the see-sawing Peninsular campaigns of Spain and Portugal that he won both title and reputation), Books (Sherman recalls his March Through Georgia in vivid, republished memoirs), Night Of The Assegais (After disaster for columns of fellow British nearby, the few men of tiny Rorke’s Drift in Zululand held out for hours behind makeshift walls of biscuit boxes and mealie bags. No profanity, urged the chaplain as he passed the ammo), Surrender Or Die (Undeterred by the 30,000 man Union army nearby, homespun cavalry tactician Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Murfreesboro at dawn and would not leave until he “had them all”, his surrender terms to the Federals most blunt), Predators Beyond All Rules (First in World War 1, then again in World War II, German U-boats broke all rules of warfare in their hunger for Allied prey. With a few more submarines put to sea, some of the admirals felt, Germany might have won), Trauma Of Courage (Interview by Alexander S. Cochran, Jr. After 23 days locked in a boxcar, strafed and bombed, prison camp looked pretty good – almost. Still to come were a 43-day, 300-mile march through wartime Germany and an attempted rescue mission led by Patton’s tanks)
Issue: February 1985
Condition: Very Good