MHQ Table of Contents, Summer 2011

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FEATURES

Play It Again, Putzi
by Ernest B. Furgurson
A piano-playing Nazi official charmed Hitler, then betrayed him to FDR

BATTLE FOR THE WEST

Hard War on the Southern Plains
by Noah Andre Trudeau
Could General William T. Sherman beat “a few thousand savages” with the brutal tactics that helped win the Civil War?

Fooled Again
by Peter E. Cozzens
A band of 57 Indian warriors in California’s high desert outsmarted and outfought a U.S. Army force that eventually numbered 1,000

Online Gallery: Battle for the West

[PORTFOLIO]
Soul of the Warrior
Photographs by Edward S. Curtis

Killing Machines
by Alfred S. Bradford Jr.
An American officer who served in the 1918 Meuse-Argonne campaign  offers a frightening look at mechanized warfare
Meuse Argonne Image Gallery

[AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR AT 150]
McClellan’s War-Winning Strategy
by Donald Stoker
Not long after the Civil War began, the Union’s “young Napoleon” crafted a viable strategy to beat the South. What went wrong?

[POINT OF VIEW]
‘Remember Bunker Hill!’?
by Paul Lockhart
Why does the 1775 battle mean so much to us when it mattered so little?

Revolution Unleashed
by O’Brien Browne
In the 1950s, Muslim Algerian rebels fought the French for their independence, losing nearly every battle but winning the war