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The Quarterly Journal of Military History
Autumn 2012, Volume 25, Number 1
FEATURES
Napoleon’s Desert Storm
by O’Brien Browne
Why Western armies win battles—but not wars—in the Muslim world
Silent and Deadly
by C. G. Sweeting
In 1940 a few dozen glider-borne paratroopers on a secret mission for Hitler captured the world’s biggest fort
WHEN SOLDIERS SLAUGHTER
‘Something Dark and Bloody’
by Drew Lindsay
Lieutenant William Calley was court-martialed for the tragic My Lai massacre. But was war itself to blame?
Murder on the Battlefield
by Andrew Pedry
Wartime atrocities through the ages
Detroit Showdown
by Jon Guttman
In 1812, a brash young British commander took on an aging American hero. One of them earned victory laurels, the other a death sentence
Online Extra: Gallery of images from 1812: A Nation Emerges
[PORTFOLIO]
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death
by Pamela D. Toler
Roger Fenton’s quiet photographs from the Crimean War
Teacher, Preacher, Soldier, Spy
by Ernest B. Furgurson
How the Methodist headmaster of a boys’ school became a Confederate secret agent—and tried to kidnap Lincoln
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY BONUS SECTION
The Battle That Saved Taiwan
by Ronald Spector
Chiang Kai-shek’s last-gasp victory at Kinmen ensured his island nation’s future
Online Extra: Gallery of images from the Kinmen battle at Guningtou
Extra Round
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AT THE FRONT |
| Letter From MHQ
Flashback
Comments
Experience
Life on an Ironclad
by Noah Andre Trudeau
Unknown Soldier
Medieval Georgia’s Renaissance Man
by Alexander Mikaberidze
Behind the Lines
Founding the Red Cross
by K. M. Kostyal
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The War List
Top commanders from the age of sail
From the Dossier
Pericles
Weapons Check
Pistole 08 Luger
Fighting Words
The language of cruelty
Speaking of…
Cowardice
Battle Schemes
Germany’s Invasion of Britain
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CULTURE OF WAR
Museum Watch
Civil War and American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., through April 2013.
Reviews
Britain’s D-Day spies, Cold War series on DVD, Ireland’s Easter Rising online, and the end of Rome
Fiction
Treating World War I battlefield injuries—with pen and ink
Poetry
Conjuring the Iliad‘s war heroes
Cover caption: In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt and ousted its Muslim rulers. (Napoleon in Egypt, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. Oil on oak panel. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund. Photo credit: Bruce M. White, © Photo: Trustees of Princeton University)
Back cover caption: A member of the 11th Hussars in the Crimean War, one of Roger Fenton’s many photos from the conflict. (Roger Fenton/Library of Congress)
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