Description
Contents: Espionage (Jewish-born Eli Cohen was Israel’s highly-placed man in Damascus.), Weaponry *The spin of a ship’s wheel may have been inspiration for Sam Colt’s famous revolver.), Personality (The rose was her emblem, and the Russian Yak fighter her catapult to wartime fame,), Travel (A visiting Englishman’s musings by the River of Death at Chickamauga.), Books (Jeb Stuart’s cavalier style was overtaken by the tragedy of war and a cause that was lost.), Legendary Wake of Terror (With Union warships menacing Vicksburg on the Mississippi, a curious-looking Rebel “box” steamed out to do battle one hot July morning in 1862. In her wake, the CSS Arkansas would leave a legend.), Driven to Constant Combat (Overage “Mick” Mannock first struck his squadron mates in France as a coward in combat. None knew he was half-blind. No German pilot later would have suspected such handicap either.), Horsemen of Cruel Cunning (The Mongols had planned a campaign of two decades to subdue 13th-century Europe, but in Hungary stiff opposition awaited the horsemen from the East. Undeterred, the Mongols laid their careful plans anyway.), Surprise Launch at Dawn (In the air above, the Japanese air commander saw his target, the Pacific Fleet. On toward the battleship Nebraska, young Ensign Joe Taussig prepared for the morning flag-raising, then noticed a low-flying torpedo plane.)
Issue: December 1986
Condition: Very Good