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Community of Cossacks
By Eric T. BakerCossacks: Back to War, from CDV for the PC, is the third in the Cossacks series of games. Read more
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Marching with the Big Red One
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Kill them, Lieutenant. Don’t take any prisoners,” exhorted the bedraggled engineer officer to the new replacements, “Don’t take any prisoners!” Read more
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Cesare Borgia was an extraordinary concoction of good and bad.
Military commanders might nearly always be odd mixtures: using violent means for ends they consider justified. But some we can only view with consternation. Read more
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Years after a bitter war, Chinese officials invited Japanese veterans to return to the Asian mainland.
By Ulrich A. StrausAmerican perceptions of Japan’s war with China (1937-1945) have been formed by the reports on the Nanking Massacre and similar examples of Japanese brutality. Read more
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McCarthy and Syron’s ‘Panzerkrieg’
By Michael D. HullWhen German forces rumbled across the Polish frontier in the early hours of Friday, September 1, 1939, igniting World War II, it was the speed and mobility of the armored divisions—the Panzerwaffe—that stunned the world. Read more
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The U.S. Fifth Air Force: A Strategy to Win
By Sam McGowanAlthough the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was the event that served to galvanize America to fight World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and his military advisers had pervasively decided that defeating the Japanese would be secondary to destroying the Nazi war machine in Europe. Read more
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The Screaming Eagles in Hitler’s Nest
By Kevin M. HymelFor the Western Allies, the war in Europe ended with more of a whimper than a bang. Read more
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C.R. Smith
Dear Editor:
I awaited the “Dispatches” to question why C.R. Smith’s name was not acknowledged in “Anything, Anywhere, Anytime” (July 2002) about the Air Transport Command (ATC), written by Sam McGowan. Read more
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Adolf Eichmann eluded the authorities for 17 years after the end of WWII.
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, ended the notorious career of one of the most ruthless and anti-Semitic Nazis. Read more
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Kokoda Kudos
Dear Editor:
I certainly enjoyed A.B. Feuer’s article on the Battle of the Kokoda Track (October 2002). In the summer of 1962 I was stationed with the 1370th Photomapping Wing’s Aerial Survey Team #5 at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Read more
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Attack on a Tank
By Robert Ritter von Greim, Leader of Jasta 34b and Jagdgruppe 10Translated and with comments by O’Brien Browne
This combat diary account by Robert Ritter von Greim describes the frantic attempts of the German Air Force to halt Allied attacks in the closing months of WWI. Read more
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Uncommon Valor
By Eric T. Baker
Uncommon Valor: Campaign for the South Pacific is new from Matrix Games. Together with legendary game designer Gary Grigsby, Joel Billings and Keith Brors of 2by3Games have created an operational campaign game of the South Pacific during World War II. Read more
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Rommel and Caporetto
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)Trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I was generally static, stultifying, and unimaginative. Read more
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Revolutionary Education
Dear Editor:
What an absolute delight to read James K. Swisher’s article, “Duel in the Backwoods” (December 2002), about the Battle of Cowpens and General Daniel Morgan’s superb generalship and guiding hand during this battle. Read more
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Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
By Brooke C. StoddardHistory is as solid as bricks. Things happened and they can’t be changed. But they can be seen with a fresh eye, or they can be noted for effects not apparent at the time. Read more
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Stunning English Victory at Poitiers
By John E. SpindlerDenis de Morbecque, an exiled French knight in the service of the English crown, thought the fighting in the hawthorn hedgerows near Poitiers would never end. Read more
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The exhaustive efforts of dedicated searchers brought home the remains of six U.S. soldiers from shallow graves in Europe.
By Bill WarnockThe metal detector buzzed loudly. Its operator, Jean-Louis Seel, used his foot to unearth a dog tag beneath the pine needles. Read more
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1st Division on D-day
Dear Sirs:
I have enjoyed your new magazine for its subject matter, layout, and graphics. Your challenge is to present articles on subject matter that has been covered for many years by world-class writers such as Cornelius Ryan, Carlo d’Este, and lately Adrian Lewis about D-day. Read more
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A Magnitude Never Imagined
By Mike McLaughlinThe Pearl Harbor disaster presented the U.S. Navy with a sobering question: how to recover? More than 2,000 men had died. Read more
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Edwin P. Hoyt’s ‘The U-Boat Wars’
By Michael D. HullWhen Chancellor Adolf Hitler started rearming Germany in 1934, his submarine force commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, asked for men and materiel to create a fleet of 300 U-boats. Read more
