MILITARY HISTORY - OCTOBER 1993 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - 1st Ohio Light Cavalry, Oak Hill, July 1, 1863

Contents include:

Exocet Fixed on Target - For us the loss of Sheffield was the equivalent of the loss of General Belgrano for the Argentines remarked Admiral John Sandy Woodward. It focused in our minds that this was a real war-that people were getting killed.

Armistice Enforced by Cannon - Ordered to stay out of Navarino Bay by the Turks, Vice Adm. Sir Edward Codrington replied: I am come not to receive orders, but to give them; and if any shot be fired at the allied fleet, the Turkish fleet shall be destroyed.

Goal With a Price to be Paid - General Hunter Liggett, commander of the U.S. Army's I Corps, described the Argonne Forest as a natural fortress, beside which the Wilderness in which Grant and Lee fought was a park.

King's Horse Tested - Driven from London by the Parliamentarians, King Charles I placed command of his loyal cavalry in the hands of his nephew, Prince Rupert-a 22 year-old dandy with a first-rate military mind.

Invasion Attempt Repeated - The Mongols had driven the Japanese back into the ancient fortress of Muzuki, but the had nearly expended all of their arrows in the process. And now their Korean sea captains were warning of a possible storm that evening.

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MILITARY HISTORY - APRIL 1987 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - British assault on the village of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt in 1882

Contents include:

One Man's Own War - Every soldier has his own story, some eventful, some not...here is the story of one GI and his adventures great and small, from Utah Beach to the Huergen Forest.

Perfectly Terrible Encounter - In 1864, the forts surrounding Richmond as a protective collar could be penetrated by forces moving with all speed, U.S. Grant calculated. His men did quickly capture Fort Harrison...but then came a series of blunders.

Dual Disaster at Sea - It was Britain's Empire Day as HMS Hood closed upon the German Bismark. In 21 minutes, one ship would be sunk, the other on its way to similar fare.

Imperial Interest Protected - The press and even Sir Uarnet Wolsely's own staff were duped into believing the British landing in Egypt in 1882 would be at Aboukir Bay. Wolsely had another idea entirely.

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MILTARY HISTORY - FEBRUARY 1988 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - Emperor Napoleon I at Somosierra in 1808

Contents include:

Timber's Protective Shield - In wave after wave, the British and their Colonial brethren stormed the barriers barring their way into Fort Ticonderoga. French General Montcalm liked the pathway his enemy had chosen.

Error Through Division - At Sedan, Napoleon III's France gathered all, gambled all....as Prussian Chancellor Bismark watched from his hillside vantage point.

Violent Summit Encounter - Among the U.S. mountaineers deployed to Italy was a German native well-used to the mountaineering tradition. In Italy, U.S. mountain troops would meet their far more experienced German counterparts.

Stressed to Breaking Point - At Blenheim, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, counted upon his enmy to rush reinforcements to the wings and leave the center open to his main attack. His commanders at either wing soon became heavily involved, the outcome uncertain.

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MILITARY HISTORY - APRIL 1989 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - Duke of Wellington

Contents include:

Chivalry's Disastrous Toll - At Flodden, in 1813, Scottish King James IV took up the challenge to do battle, but was slow to turn around when the English appeared behind his carefully prepared position.

Red Enemies in White - After the November Armistice, most doughboys went marching back home-but not the American infantrymen fighting the Bolsheviks in the bitter snows of northern Russia.

Jungle Nights Terror - At Cape Gloucester on New Britain, the terrain and climate vied with the Japanese as the real enemy for the U.S. Marines invading 350 miles west of the Japanese bastion of Rabaul.

Volunteers Tour of Duty - For a young soldier from Minnesota, enlistment during the Civil War would mean far more than mere adventure as his Tenth Volunteers deployed, first against the Santee Sioux, then against Johnny Reb to the South.

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MILITARY HISTORY - AUGUST 1989 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - Prussian Cuirassiers - Franco-Prussian War 1870

Contents include:

Empires Chief Defender - As the epitome of Victorian England's soldier-general, Garnet Wolseley ranged far and wide in his service on behalf of the Empire upon which the sun never set.

Last Galley Battle - Back and forth swung the battle, the last great sea battle of oar-powered ships, as Christian and Turk clashed in historic confrontation in the Gulf of Patras of Lepanto.

Enemy Hull Glowing - Aboard the U.S. cruiser, Montpelier, a young seaman saw just about all the Pacific War ahd to offer-from raging naval battle to island invasions, typhoon seas, and the distant falsh of an atomic bomb.

Fateful Delay Imposed - At Waterloo, the chief defenders of the La Haye Sainte farm were the Hanoverians of the King's German Legion. Their performance that fateful day reflected a unique sort of valor.

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MILITARY HISTORY - DECEMBER 1992 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - Franco-English Army vs. Spanish Force at Bataille des Dunes, 1658

Contents include:

Red Lion Lament - Espying Robert the Bruce scouting the area between opposing forces, Sir Humphrey de Bohun could not resist the opportunity. Couching his lance, the English knight rode full-tilt to engage the Scottish king in single combat.

Nasty Little Fight - The Canadians bombarded the rebellious Indian village with 7-pounder cannon and a Gatling gun, but to no avail. Advancing under their trajectories through draws and ravines, Fineday and his braves prepared to assault the cumbersome guns.

Duel of French Chessmasters - It had taken Marechal Turenne's French cavaly and English allies four hours to dislodge the Spanish from their key position in the Dunes. But now, as he had anticipated, the tide was coming in, and the Spanish right flank began to fold.

Best Case Scenario Exceeded - At 1 o'clock on the morning of September 12, 1918, an artillery barrage loudly heralded the opening of the St. Mihiel offensive. After 17 months of effort, an American army was fighting under its own flag declared General John J. Pershing.

Three-War Marine - After enduring a torpedo attack off Truk, being strafed on Okinawa and surviving a rocket attack in Korea, Charles Gaither was ready to retire from the Marine Corp in 1965. But he still had 13 months to go-and he was going to Vietnam.

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MILITARY HISTORY - FEBRUARY 1994 Publication of the Wedier History Group featuring in-depth photographic and illustrated articles focusing on interesting military events, (some little-known) since the beginning of civilization to the present.

In very good condition.

Cover - Napoleon Bonaparte Reviews the Path to Conquest

Contents include:

Major Stakes for Tiny Armies - As he prepared to face his French opponents at Wandiwash, Britain's Colonel Eyre Coote ordered his troops to place green branches in their hats or turbans. Both forces were filled out with native Indian sepoys-and both opposing commanders wre Irish.

City Taken and Retaken - On May 5, 1190, after trying out a new varient of Greek fire against the Crusaders' siege towers, Acre's Muslim defenders reported that the moat around the city had become a pool of fire with the tower as a fountain.

Peril Repeatedly Risked - As he accepted the task of assualting the mountain stronghold, General Wladislaw Anders told his troops: We will be remembered in history...history will recall bravery of the Polish soldiers who fought on Monte Cassino.

Commander Branded for Life - Napoleon's rection to General Pierre Dupont de l'Etang's capitulation to the Spaniards at Bailen was outrage: Has there ever, since the world began, been such a stupid, cowardly business as this.

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