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Contents: Editorials, Letters, Intrigue (The CIA’s scheme to invade Cuba’s Bay of Pigs was undone by “plausible deniability”.), Personality (Edwin O. Loucks reached Cuba in time to see the Spanish surrender, but after that, he wrote, “our real troubles commenced”.), Weaponry (Injurious to horses and men, the caltrop is also effective against rubber tires.), Perspectives (At Omdurman, Osman Digna enticed the British into a deadly ambush.), Reviews (“Think what it will be like when the Duke of Wellington is announced” mused his eldest son ruefully, “and only I come in”.), Irish Triumph at the Yellow Ford (Sir Richard Percy reported that word of Marshal Sir Henry Bagenal’s death left his soldiers “so dismayed that from retiring they began to fall into a rout”. I actuality, Hugh O’Neil’s Irishmen had been in control of the battle from the very start.), Marine Raider in the Pacific (When Captain John Apergis told Corporal Charlie Van Hoose to lead his squad against a machine=gun position on Guadalcanal, the corporal replied, “I’ll do this alone”. He then took four grenades and a Thompson submachine gun and wiped out the enemy.), Death of the Prince Imperial (Warned that Aulus had been spotted nearby, Prince Louis Napoleon ordered his fellow horsemen to prepare to mount. Just then, a volley of rifle fire erupted from the tall grass 20 yards away, followed by screams of “uSuthu” (Kill!).), A Connecticut Yankee at St. Mihiel (When Sergeant James Carey suggested bluffing the German machine gunners, Private Harold Proctor said, “I honestly think we’re foolish to try it, but whatever you say goes”.), Battle of the Pyramids (Massing on General Napoleon Bonaparte’s flank, the Mamelukes charged. “The soldiers fired with such coolness that not a single cartridge was wasted…” wrote Lieutenant Verray, “The number of corpses surrounding our square soon was considerable”.)
Issue: August 1998
Condition: Very Good