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No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Pages are clean, unmarked, undamaged and lightly toned. Covers are clean. Narrow uneven strip of discoloration from light exposure to fore-edge of back cover. Address label on the front cover. Slight rubbing to front cover. Very little wear otherwise. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Limits to Resistance Weighed" (For a Pole caught between the equally brutal forces of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, sheer survival was often the only possible form of resistance) interview by Albert Hemingway; "Decisive Victory Let Go" (General George Washington's tactics at Long Island cost him a battle, but General William Howe's strategy cost him the opportunity to win the war) by James W. Flanagan; "Battlers Becalmed" (Hobbled by inflexible orders, French Admiral Tourville had no choice but to accept odds of more than 2-to-1--and came trantalizingly close to reprising his greatest triumph of the previous war) by Jon Guttman; "Beyond Chivalry's Code" (King Philip II of France perceived little threat from England's inept King John, but at Bouvines in 1214 he faced John's formidable ally, Emperor Otto IV, with heavy odds against France's continuing existence) by Eric Niderost; "Editorial"; "Espionage" (The 'French Lady' who came aboard the Baltimore packet St. Nicholas was really from Maryland--and she was no lady) by Charles Rice; "Personality" (Considered for command of the British Army, Sir Arthur Currie's achievements were given less appreciation by his fellow Canadians) by Patrick Bode; "Weaponry" (Whether for French heavy cavalry or Beja tribesmen, it took extraordinary courage and fortitude to break a British square) by Robert O. Deibel; "Books" (The legacy of the Huns, Vikings and Mongols was not exclusively destructive) by Edmund Sheldon; "Travel" (Bastogne preserves memories of two world wars, but most notably the lore of the Battle of the Bulge) by John J. Ingolsby.

Broschur. Condizione: gut. 154 S. : graph. Darst. ; 21 cm, Bibliotheksexemplar, Aufkleber, Einband mit Folie verstärkt, Dreieckstasche. Sprache: deu.