Description
Contents: Espionage (Germany’s Fraulein Doktor in Antwerp was an unusual spymaster.), Weaponry (For all its color and effectiveness, the cavalry finally had to give way to modern reality.), Personality (Jones was not his real name, but a fighting sea captain he was.), Books (America’s early enemies did more to create a U.S. Navy than did its “friends” at home.), Travel (Following the Allied path to Rome past a famous roadblock: the Abbey Monte Cassino.), Survival Cannot Be Expected (In possibly the greatest of all sea battles, Leyte Gulf, the actions of the plucky Johnston materially aided the salvation of the seemingly hapless U.S. task force – Taffy 3.), Every Bayonet Bent or Bloodied (Knocking at London’s very door few short months before, Bonnie Prince Charlie now had to rouse his fierce Highlanders for decisive confrontation at Culloden against the thoroughly aroused English.), Rampaging Cavalry Raiders (Lincoln might think the Missouri territory secure, but Confederate cavalryman Jo Shelby was about to rip-snort for 41 days in effort to prove otherwise.), So Much Owed To So Few (An American-born veteran of the Battle of Britain recalls his six years in the RAF – and the time he landed two planes at once.)
Issue: October 1985
Condition: Very Good