Volume 7, No. 2
Cover: In Sight: Lord Dundonald’s Dash on Ladysmith, 1900, a scene from the Boer War. Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, www.bridgeman.co.uk
October 2005
Military Heritage
The century of conflict that would introduce the concept of total war to the world had its bloody roots on an obscure hilltop in the remote South African veldt. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage
At the start of the Second Boer War in 1899, Winston Churchill sailed to Cape Town, South Africa, where he served as a journalist for the Morning Post. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage
Young and ambitious, recently crowned English king Henry V had a dynastic point to make, one that would relieve him of the taint of royal illegitimacy born of the fact that his father had usurped the English throne a mere decade before. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage
On the morning of October 11, 1776, Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold restlessly paced the deck of his flagship Congress. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage
A hard, late-afternoon rain was falling on May 5, 1862, and the slopes at the foot of Puebla, Mexico’s twin forts were too slippery for another assault. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage
The tattered banners of Hercules fluttered in the howling wind along the Frigidus River in western Italy, hard athwart the Adriatic Sea, on the afternoon of September 6, 394 ad. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Editorial
It is somehow fitting that the Boer War spanned the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, since the conflict itself represented both the last old-fashioned war and the first modern one. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Communique
Dear Editors:
I have always believed that historical writers like myself should be corrected when they make mistakes. In my case, I will do so here. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Weapons
Design work for a minimum-size atomic warhead called the XW-51 began at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in the mid 1950s. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Soldiers
Two brigades of Confederate soldiers crested a slight hill above a wheat field and looked down on the blue clad soldiers waiting for them in the brickyard below. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Intelligence
This is a story of what might have been. If Japan had chosen to attack far-off British Malaya on December 7, 1941, instead of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, President Franklin Roosevelt was prepared to go before Congress and ask—for the first time in American history—for a declaration of war against a nation that had not fired the first shot against us. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Militaria
Deral Mosby is hooked. In a little over two years, the 58-year-old retired chemist’s collection of 20th-century military-surplus firearms has evolved from a handful of Russian Mosin Nagant infantry rifles valued at around $125 each to an ever-growing horde of Finnish military rifles and carbines, some of which are quite rare and worth considerably more. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Books
German Army Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg is regarded as a towering hero of World War I, the victor of the Battles of Tannenberg (1914) and the Masurian Lakes (1914 and 1915), as well as army chief of staff and master strategist. Read more
October 2005
Military Heritage, Games
The Battlefield series of games from Electronic Arts brings large- scale, realistic multiplayer combat to the PC. Read more
