Military History – March 2011 – Table of Contents

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Cover Story
The Making of Rommel
By Dennis Showalter
How a 26-year-old German lieutenant, fighting at Caporetto in the Italian Alps in 1917, became the legendary Rommel

1812: Victory at Sea
By Joseph F. Callo
How the new U.S. Navy matched Britain’s best

How Resistant?
By Stephan Wilkinson
The facts and Hollywood fiction about the French Resistance

Portfolio: A Brush with War
Famous for knights and pirates, Howard Pyle also illustrated the Redcoats and Patriots of the American Revolution

Tragedy at Fismette, France, 1918
By Edward G. Lengel
Ordered by the French, fought by Americans—ultimately futile

Arsenal of Venice
By Roger Crowley
The Italians were first to launch a mass-production shipyard/armory—during the Renaissance

On the cover: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in 1941. (Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz/Art Resource, New York; Colorization by John Roche/Slingshot Studio)

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Peyton March: Unsung general of World War I

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