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Mafia in World War II
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Not long ago, I watched an episode of the documentary television series World at War about America invading Italy. Read more
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Turning the Flank at Flodden
By Robert SwainFlanking movements were long known to English military commanders, but traditionally they were limited to maneuvers by one wing around an enemy’s line—not by the entire army itself, which would have been considered highly unorthodox and far too risky. Read more
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Hannibal, Rome and Cannae
by Keith Milton
It could be argued that Hannibal’s hesitation to go after Rome shortly after Cannae was because he lacked a siege train. Read more
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Hannibal of Carthage: Scourge of Rome
By Jonas L. Goldstein
The accomplishments of Hannibal from his departure from Spain, his crossing of the Alps, and his battles on the Italian peninsula, climaxing with his great victory at Cannae, were enough to permanently etch his name among the greatest military leaders of history. Read more
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The 761st Tank Battalion
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.d., U.S. Army (Ret.)As a boy growing up in New York City in the 1950s, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) idolized his father’s co-worker, Leonard “Smitty” Smith, and considered him a surrogate father. Read more
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Patton’s Best Friend
Dear Editors,
I have received my November 2004 issue and read it. I shared it with a neighbor and he has also ordered a subscription after seeing it. Read more
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Rome: Total War
By Eric T. BakerFans of ancient combat are in luck due to the release of Rome: Total War for the PC from Activision. Read more
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The U.S. Army rose from being a colonial campaigner, to a formidable global power.
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)In 1898, with Indian campaigns in the past, the 28,000-man U.S. Read more
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General Skobelev
Dear Editors:
During a recent visit to Germany I read the October 2004 issue of Military Heritage—this magazine is unavailable in my home country of Bulgaria. Read more
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Paratrooper
By Lt. Col. Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)It is a gamble at best, and an invitation to disaster at worst,” writes Ed Ruggero of the first large scale U.S. Read more
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Codename: Panzers
By Eric T. BakerCodename: Panzers from CDV for the PC uses the troops, equipment, and tanks of World War II as the fodder for a real-time strategy game. Read more
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The 42nd Rainbow Division in France
By Lt. Col. Harold E.Raugh, Jr., Ph.D., U.S. Army (Ret.)War stripped a man of his protective illusions and left only a terrible wisdom, which he had neither wanted nor consciously sought,” reflected Hugh S. Read more
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The outcome of the Battle of the Bulge might have been very different—starting for some of us at home.
Sixty years ago this month, in the Ardennes region of eastern Belgium, Adolf Hitler rolled the dice for the last time in World War II. Read more
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The Real Story of Normandy
By Sam McGowanThe subtitle for this book, How Ordinary Soldiers Defeated Hitler, pretty well sums up the authors’ objectives in describing the Normandy Campaign through the eyes of the men who did the actual fighting. Read more
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Inside Stalag 17
By Sam McgowanOn June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed in Normandy, commencing the offensive that liberated Western Europe and contributed to the final Allied victory in Europe. Read more
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G4MI mk 11’s
Dear Editors,
I very much enjoy your magazine and the in-depth articles therein. In the January 2004 issue Mike Slater’s article “Desperate Marianas Counterstroke” was particularly interesting. Read more
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The Six Day War
Dear Editors,
I am a subscriber of your magazine Military Heritage. Recently, I have noticed that the tremendous, extraordinary battles and strategies of WWII have at best received minimal coverage. Read more
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Plevna Under Seige
By Victor KamenirBy the late 1870s, Turkey, the so-called “Sick Man of Europe,” was in terminal decline. While Sultan Abdul Hamid sequestered himself in his palatial compound through paranoid fear of an assassination, the Ottoman Empire was tearing itself apart. Read more
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Allied codebreaking was an arduous effort.
The casual reader of World War II history will come across the assertion that the Allies in Europe were reading the German codes. Read more
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Bushmasters’ Company B
Dear Editor:
I enjoyed Blaine Taylor’s “Top Secret” column in the May 2004 issue. However, for future reference, you may want to review one minor technical error. Read more
