Volume 12, No. 4
COVER: Scots Guards Saving the Colours at Alma, 1854, 1899 (oil on canvas) by Lady Butler (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) (1846-1933). Chelsea Barracks, London, UK/The Bridgeman Art Library.
Winter 2011
Military Heritage
At 0100 hours on September 12, 1918, German positions in the St. Mihiel salient on the Western Front were lit up by a massive artillery barrage. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage
In October 1949, the government of the Republic of China faced the greatest crisis in its history. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage
On the morning of September 14, 1854, an Anglo-French fleet arrived off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula in the Black Sea. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage
On Sunday, September 3, 1939, the day that Great Britain and France formally declared war on Germany after the Nazis’ invasion of Poland, the German supply ship Altmark concluded her stay at the refinery center of Port Arthur, Texas, where she had taken on a full cargo of diesel oil, and returned to sea. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage
An angry gloom hung like dust over the 6,000 Confederate cavalrymen trooping up the York Turnpike in the early dawn of July 3, 1863. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Editorial
While newly minted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer was leading his Michigan cavalry brigade to glory at Gettysburg, fellow brigadier Elon Farnsworth, himself a native Wolverine, confronted a very different fate. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Soldiers
The samurai warrior sat in the middle of the dueling grounds in the village of Hirafuku, Japan, glaring at the spectators who had gathered around him. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Weapons
Early on the morning of December 16, 1944, the commander of the U.S. 406th Artillery Group, Colonel George Axelson, had a difficult decision to make. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Intelligence
South Africa in the spring of 1978 was a country besieged. The apartheid state was increasingly unpopular with its neighbors and unable to control its own restive black population. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Militaria
Anyone who has ever visited Europe—particularly France, Italy, and the Netherlands—knows that the people in those countries love their bicycles. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Books
The image most people have of the Roman emperor Nero is of him perched at the summit of the Palatine hills, strumming his lyre while Rome is engulfed in flames. Read more
Winter 2011
Military Heritage, Games
Ace Combat games aren’t exactly known for being precision flight sims, or sims of any kind, for that matter. Read more
