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Contents: Escape From Brooklyn (Trapped on Long Island, the Continental army slipped away under the cover of darkness – a defeat that taught George Washington how to win the war); Point Of View Alexander The Monster (Historians say the Macedonian king’s battlefield atrocities were part of his brilliant military strategy. But were they really born of his personality?); The Worst Place Of Any (American generals fail and an army is decimated in the dark recesses of Germany’s Hurtgen Forest. An excerpt from the last volume of Atkinson’s World War II trilogy); Portfolio True Blue And Gray (A veteran filmmaker brings color and new life to hundreds of Civil War photos from the Library of Congress); Guns vs. Pikes (In 1522, Spanish infantrymen demonstrated to Europe the fearsome power of firearms); America’s Civil War At 150 ‘A Strange And Blighted Land’ (After the Rebels retreated, Gettysburg faced a second invasion, by hordes of thieves and scavengers, nurses and gravediggers); Welcome To China! (The first American gunboat arrived on the Yangtze in 1854. What followed was nearly a century of fun and danger for a U.S. Navy patrol knows as the YangPat Rats) Departments – Letter From MHQ; Flashback; Comments; Behind The Lines (FDR: Could bats bomb Japan?); Weider Reader (Excerpts from our sister magazines); Experience (A WWI sniper’s surprise) At The Front – The War List (West Point’s most notable stars); Honor Roll (A French General’s hero son, 1951); Weapons Check (Dawn of tanks, 1918); Fighting Words (The color of war); Drawn And Quartered (Witches over Vietnam); Battle Schemes (Italians on the loose in Spain, 1939) Culture Of War – Museum Watch; Reviews (Holger Herwig on two books about WWI; a grunt’s view of Gettysburg; 10 great battle hit TV; and a photojournalist’s oral history of the Iraq War); Fiction (William Sherman joins the Union navy at Vicksburg – an excerpt from Jeff Shaara’s new novel)
Issue: Summer 2013
Condition: Very Good