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Summer 2013, Volume 25, Number 4
FEATURES Escape From Brooklyn by Thomas Fleming Trapped on Long Island, the Continental army slipped away under the cover of darkness—a defeat that taught George Washington how to win the war
[POINT OF VIEW] Alexander the Monster by Richard Gabriel Historians say the Macedonian king’s battlefield atrocities were part of his brilliant military strategy. But were they really born of his personality?
by Rick Atkinson American generals fail and an army is decimated in the dark recesses of Germany’s Hürtgen Forest. An excerpt from the last volume of Atkinson’s World War II?trilogy
[PORTFOLIO] True Blue and Gray A veteran filmmaker brings color and new life to hundreds of Civil War photos from the Library of Congress
Guns vs. Pikes by Paul Lockhart In 1522, Spanish infantrymen demonstrated to Europe the fearsome power of firearms
[AMERICA’S CIVIL WAR AT 150] ‘A Strange and Blighted Land’ by Duane Schultz After the Rebels retreated, Gettysburg faced a second invasion, by hordes of thieves and scavengers, nurses and gravediggers
by Steven Trent Smith The first American gunboat arrived on the Yangtze in 1854. What followed was nearly a century of fun and danger for a U.S. Navy patrol known as the YangPat Rats
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY BONUS SECTION Gunning for Yellowstone by George Black Betrayal and bloodshed in the mid-1800s beget America’s first national park
CULTURE OF WAR Reviews Artists Fiction
Cover caption: George Washington in triumph at Trenton in 1776. Read Thomas Fleming’s “Escape From Brooklyn” to learn how his earlier defeat at Brooklyn planted the seeds for victory in the Revolutionary War. (John Faed/Private Collection/Christie’s Images/The Bridgeman Art Library) |