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February 2012AD CLOSE 10.11.11 MATERIALS DUE 10.18.11 ON SALE 12.6.11

Was George Washington too good to be true?Portfolio: Patent models—the secret to a better mousetrapLynchings: our unique historyThe seven greatest revival ministers of all timeHow Teddy Roosevelt saved college football

April 2012AD CLOSE 12.13.11 MATERIALS DUE 12.20.11 ON SALE 2.7.12

Lighthorse Harry Lee: revolutionary hero, screwup, and father of Robert E. LeeWhy Einstein Loved AmericaCould you pass a citizenship exam?

June 2012AD CLOSE 2.7.12 MATERIALS DUE 2.14.12 ON SALE 4.3.12

Thomas Jefferson’s womenThree forgeries that changed AmericaHow the election of 1912 turned the Republican party conservative

August 2012AD CLOSE 4.10.12 MATERIALS DUE 4.17.12 ON SALE 6.5.12

What did the founding fathers mean by the “pursuit of happiness”?Great acts of presidential courageA history of Muslims in America

October 2012AD CLOSE 6.5.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.12.12 ON SALE 7.31.12

George Washington’s will: why did he give everything away?American hotspots: a history of our active volcanoesAll the presidents’ mistresses

December 2012AD CLOSE 8.7.12 MATERIALS DUE 8.14.12 ON SALE 10.2.12

Who really belongs on Mt. Rushmore?Columbus, Indiana, where all the architecture is good lookingThe most beautiful steam engines ever built

About The MagazineAmerican History is the leading popular magazine devoted to exploring the rich texture of the American experience through engaging writing, outstanding photography and artwork. Each issue takes readers to the people and places that played an important role in the history of our country.

Frequency: 6x yearPaid Circulation: 53,000Total Audience: 212,000US Single Copy: $6.99Subscription: $39.95/year

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Departments• Encounter • Details• The First • Interview• The Big Picture • Gazette• Book and DVD Reviews• We’ve Been Here Before• Letters from American History• From America’s Attic

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January 2012AD CLOSE 9.5.11 MATERIALS DUE 9.13.11 ON SALE 11.1.11

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureGrant, Donelson and “Unconditional Surrender”

The Generals We Love to HateNew York’s Attempt at SecessionPortfolio: Civil War Impressions by McClellan’s Guest, the Duc d’Orleans

March 2012AD CLOSE 11.8.11 MATERIALS DUE 11.15.11 ON SALE 1.3.12

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureShiloh by Winston Groom

How the Monitor Changed the NavyBlack ConfederatesSpielberg’s Lincoln: Taking Richmond Back to the War Years

May 2012AD CLOSE 1.10.12 MATERIALS DUE 1.17.12 ON SALE 3.6.12

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureBen Butler’s assault on Louisiana

Refugees on the DoorstepA Chance Encounter with Morgan’s RaidersPortfolio: Occupied New Orleans

July 2012AD CLOSE 3.13.12 MATERIALS DUE 3.20.12 ON SALE 5.8.12

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureSecond Bull Run

The Gettysburg Scapegoats: How Three Confederate Generals Were TargetedPortfolio: Nine Generals from Galena

September 2012AD CLOSE 5.8.12 MATERIALS DUE 5.15.12 ON SALE 7.3.12

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureAntietam

Features George Washington Whitman’s Civil WarConfederate Veterans’ Homes—Caring for Aging WarriorsPortfolio: Brady’s Antietam exhibit

November 2012AD CLOSE 7.10.12 MATERIALS DUE 7.17.12 ON SALE 9.4.12

Civil War 150th Anniversary FeatureBurnside at Fredericksburg

Lincoln’s new birth of freedomWas Grant an anti-Semite?Portfolio: War heroes turned politicians

About The MagazineAmerica’s Civil War provides authoritative insights into the epic struggle that nearly tore the Union apart. Beautifully illustrated with period and modern photographs, artwork and detailed battle maps. It delivers the stories you didn’t hear about in history class.

Frequency: 6x yearPaid Circulation: 37,000Total Audience: 148,000US Single Copy: $5.99Subscription: $39.95/yr.



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Departments• Timeline• Cease Fire• Primary Sources• Legends• Field Notes• Book, Film and Multimedia Reviews• Struck!• Prologue

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Editorial HighlightsJanuary 2012AD CLOSE 9.13.11 MATERIALS DUE 9.20.11 ON SALE 11.8.11

COVER STORYBlack Cross vs. Red Star. Germany against the Soviet Union on WWII’s Eastern Front, by acclaimed author Richard Armstrong.

What Next, General? George Washington Strikes Back, 1776-77

Battlefield Leader: King Richard I

March 2012 AD CLOSE 11.22.11 MATERIALS DUE 11.29.11 ON SALE 1.17.12

COVER STORY: What Next General?Guderian in Poland, 1939. As the famed German “panzer general,” you must decide how to win the campaign that started World War II.

Battle Studies: Ralph Peters’ Exclusive “Decade That Changed Warfare”

Battlefield Leader: Britain’s Orde Wingate

Bonus Feature: Killing Hitler’s Hangman


COVER STORY: Battle StudiesPatton in Morocco, 1942. The legend of “Old Blood & Guts” began when he led the Allied invasion of North Africa.

What Next, General?: Israel’s Battle of the Sinai, 1973

Battlefield Leader: Gen. Jake Devers—WWII’s Forgotten Victor

Bonus Article: 10 Questions with West Point Grad, Duke’s Legendary ‘Coach K’


COVER STORY: Battlefield LeaderWarlords: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Nimitz. Find out which one of these famous World War II Theater Commanders was America’s greatest “Warlord.”

What Next, General?: Taylor’s Mexican War Nightmare, 1846

Battle Studies: Carlo D’Este’s Exclusive “Kasserine Pass, 1943”

Special Feature: How the South Could Have WON the Civil War


COVER STORY: Battlefield LeaderGen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA. The fiery Confederate cavalryman proved to be the Civil War’s “Wizard of the Saddle”

Battle Studies: Dave Zabecki on “Bloody Huertgen Forest, 1944-45”

Special Feature: War of the Dragons – Sino-Japanese War 1937-45

What Next, General?: Russia’s Battle of Tannenberg, 1914


COVER STORY: What Next, General?Manstein at Stalingrad, 1942. As Hitler’s best general, can you save a trapped German army from Stalin’s resurgent Red Army?

Battlefield Leader: Gen. Ernie Harmon’s Battle of the Bulge

Battle Studies: War of 1812 Bicentennial

Special Feature: Ike and the Invasion of Japan, 1945

About The MagazineWith a unique interactive editorial approach, Armchair General invites readers to step into the shoes of a battlefield leader. Leading contributing writers lend integrity and credibility to this fresh presentation of historical and current day leaders.


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Departments• Crisis Watch • Dispatches• Forgotten History • Great Warriors• Hard Choices • Battlefield Leader• Game Reviews • Play It!• Command Decision

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Game-ChangersFrom the Blériot XI, to the first practical airplane, to the Airbus A320, the first airliner to employ digital fly-by-wire technology, we round up history’s most influential airplanes. For a variety of reasons, each was ahead of its time.

Flying BlindGuy Gibson: Before the Dambuster RaidNango’s Last Stand: Death of a Japanese AceGyroplane Inventor Juan de la CiervaVought F-8 Crusader: The Last Gunfighter


Race for the Jet EngineThe story of how Britain’s Sir Frank Whittle developed a revolutionary new aircraft engine, while his German counterpart, Hans von Ohain, worked on a similar design.

“Meatboxes” vs. “Doodlebugs”First U.S. Marine AviatorsCelluloid Wings: Airplanes in the MoviesDornier Do-31: Record-Breaking VTOL Transport


Gerhard Barkhorn: German Knight Over the Russian FrontThe Doolittle Raiders 70 Years LaterDon Blakeslee: America’s Most-Decorated WWII Fighter PilotAnthony Fokker’s D.VII: The Best Fighter of World War IPioneer Aviatrix Helen RicheyX-15: Crossing the Hypersonic Divide


The 15 Most Beautiful Airplanes Ever ProducedRAF WWII Ace of Aces Marmaduke PattleFrench WWI Ace Jean Navarre: The Sentinel of VerdunAviation Cadet’s Letter Home“Crash” Ryan and the Origins of the Black BoxMartin PBM Mariner: Pacific War Workhorse


The Great Dambuster RaidIsraeli Spitfires in ActionSchlachtflieger: Origins of Close Air SupportFrank Tinker: American Ace in the Spanish Civil WarB-17 Massacre Over MagdeburgStopgap Interceptors of the Early 1950s


The Pattillo Twins: Mustang Pilots and Thunderbird FoundersB-24 Raid on Ploesti: The Real StoryConsolidated PBY Catalina: The Navy’s Most Important Airplane?1922 Blake/Macmillan Around-the-World AttemptWalter Wellman and the 1910 Airship AmericaIsraeli F-21s vs. American F-14s and F-18s

About The MagazineAviation History offers aviation enthu-siasts the most authoritative and in-depth coverage of the history of world aviation and manned flight, from its origins to the Space Age. Action-packed stories and illustrations put readers in the cockpit to experience aviation’s greatest dramas.




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Departments• Aviators • Restored• Extremes • Briefing (news)• Airware (flight sims) • Book and • Flight Test (Trivia) DVD Reviews• Aero Poster • Modeling

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HIGH ANDMIGHTYBoeing’s brilliant, sleek,sophisticated superbomber(with four cranky engines)

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FeaturesWarwickshire’s Edible Gardens Lord Coke at Holkham HallNewark at the CrossroadsLoving Life at Quarry Bank MillModern Mudlarking in the ThamesLondon’s (Protected) Inspiring VistasA Day to Visit StamfordBritish Heritage

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FeaturesThat Famous Full English BreakfastGlamping at Stamford BridgeThe Eden ProjectA Day to Visit CanterburyOffa’s Dyke: Hiking the Welsh MarchesThe Blue Plaque SpecialThe Queen’s Year: Sandringham

May 2012 AD CLOSE 1.3.12 MATERIALS DUE 1.10.12 ON SALE 2.28.12

FeaturesRelics and Recreations: A Journey Through Saxon EnglandAt Home with the Llangollen International EisteddfodThe Volcanoes of SkyeA Day in the Life: Around Westminster with MP Patrick MercerQueen Katherine at Sudeley CastleA Day to Visit ExeterThe Queen’s Year: Spring


FeaturesCrossing the Sands of Morecombe BayThis Old House: Haddon HallOlympic FeverCumbria’s Uncommon Waters

About The MagazineBritish Heritage is the magazine of travel and life in England, Scotland and Wales, British Heritage is written for those who love Britain. A must-read for serious Anglophiles who know their way around Britain’s history and landscapes. 35% to 40% of our readers travel to Britain in a given year.





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February 2012 50th Anniversary IssueAD CLOSE 10.11.11 MATERIALS DUE 10.18.11 ON SALE 12.6.11

1st Issue Reprint InsertWhen Sherman Turned NorthBottles at Port HudsonSearching for Silas ChandlerChamberlain Park


Black Troops at NashvilleSheridan, Lee, Grant and the Franco-Prussian WarAntonia Ford, Mosby’s Female Super SpyThe Great Sanitary Fair of 1861


Major Robert DelanyRebecca Wright Helps Win the WarA Tale of Four WarriorsBattle of Brandy Station Map (supplement)Abraham Lincoln’s Telegraph Blunder


DVD BONUS Gettysburg

Mapping and Robert E. Lee’s Gettysburg CampaignThe Civil War’s Best MusketConfederates from the Liljenquist Collection

October 2012 (Anteitam 150th Anniversary)

AD CLOSE 6.12.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.19.12 ON SALE 8.7.12

99 Places You Need to See at AntietamThe Life and Death of Major General Jesse RenoAntietam Map Supplement


The Rappahannock River Front

About The MagazineFrom biographies to battle stories, eyewitness accounts to period photographs, travel guides to insightful book and film reviews, Civil War Times delivers the thrilling, living history of America’s greatest internal struggle.





Departments• Civil War Today• Research Room• War Graph• Ads of the Age• Portfolio• Field Guide• Gary Gallagher’s Blue and Gray • Resources• Characters• Book and Film Reviews

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January 2012AD CLOSE 9.611 MATERIALS DUE 9.13.11 ON SALE 11.1.11

Race and the American Military A meditation on a military and social landmark decision and its consequences

Pakistan vs. IndiaWhy Did the Japanese Attack Pearl Harbor?Nathan Bedford Forrest: The Most Feared General in History?Bloodlands


Bomb or Bust? Nuclear weapons have transformed warfare. Or have they?

Father of the FortressThe Great Benedict ArnoldNo Bed of Roses—England’s War of the RosesPortfolio: An Eye for a Battle


How Bad was Xerxes?The ancient world’s most successful loser reconsidered: He often lost wars with the Greeks, but won one the ancient world’s great empires.

Mesopotamian RondoBelleau Wood and the Myth of Saving ParisPortfolio: Monumental TheftThe Propaganda “Olympics”The Longest Scourge


The End of Mass Warfare?From the French Revolution to World War II, wars were big—but those days are over.

The Three-Way WarRidgway’s Big WinHannibal’s Biggest MistakePortfolio: The Bayeaux TapestryThe Purple Heart


A Good War?Was there ever such a thing?

Pakistan vs. IndiaHow Satellites Changed WarfareAlexander the Not-So-Great?


Born in BloodWas tribal warfare the midwife of the first organized societies?

The Clash at Ayn JalutWar Within a War Portfolio: Tanks for the Memory George Washington: Military Genius

About The MagazineMilitary History tells the timeless true tales of battlefield heroics, brilliant tactics, and wily commanders from ancient epic struggles through 20th century global campaigns—all vividly presented by top writers, artists and historians.





Departments• Book and Game Reviews• Interview• What We Learned...• Valor• Tools• Decisions• Hallowed Ground• Weapons We’re Glad They Never Built

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America’sFinest General

General DwightEisenhower conferswith his boss,Chief of StaffGeorge C. Marshall,October 6, 1944

Crimean War Fiasco

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Editorial HighlightsWinter 2012AD CLOSE 9.6.11 MATERIALS DUE 9.13.11 ON SALE 11.1.11

COVER STORY: FDR as Commander in Chief

FEATURESPearl Harbor Spy and WeintraubYom Kippur War: Bloody Road to PeaceBattle of Panipat (1526)Athenians as WarriorsCivil War PressPortfolio: Propaganda Posters

Spring 2012AD CLOSE 12.13.11 MATERIALS DUE 12.22.11 ON SALE 2.21.12

COVER STORY: Sex and WarHow fighting wars has helped modern American men regain the upper hand in the war of the sexes.

FEATURES Doolittle Raid (WWII) 70th anniversarySports Greats at War (WWI, WWII, Modern)Alexander the Great As MonsterGuagmela, Alexander’s Best General

Summer 2012AD CLOSE 3.6.12 MATERIALS DUE 3.15.12 ON SALE 5.15.12

COVER: Atrocities: Why Does This Keep Happening?A look at the nature of evil, through the lens of atrocities committed by armed forces throughout history: Why does this keep happening?

FEATURESEyewitness to Horror: My Lai RevisitedEssay: The Tipping Point: Why Men Slaughter Portfolio/Timeline: Atrocities Through the AgesThe War ListFighting WordsPatton in North AfricaGoeben Eludes Royal Navy (WWI)

Fall 2012AD CLOSE 6.5.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.14.12 ON SALE 8.14.12

COVER: WWII Armored Clashes

FEATURESBattle of KurskAfrican Raiders (WWII)Axis Subs in the PacificThe Battle of MidwayJune 1942 70th anniversaryTeddy Roosevelt Reforms the Army (1900-1910)The Convention Army (Rev. War)

Winter 2013AD CLOSE 9.4.12 MATERIALS DUE 9.13.12 ON SALE 11.13.12

Sex and WarThe History of Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderHitler’s Doomsday weaponThe Nuclear Canon of the Cold WarVietnam’s Frontline GruntsPlaying Cat and Mouse in the Mediterranean in WWI

About The MagazineMHQ takes you on an exciting journey to the world’s greatest battles and campaigns over the last 5,000 years, from ancient warfare through modern Iraq. Written by distinguished authors and historians, MHQ covers in vivid detail the soldiers, leaders, tactics, and weapons throughout military history, delivered in an exquisitely illustrated, deluxe magazine.

Frequency: QuarterlyPaid Circulation: 22,000Total Audience: 88,000US Single Copy: $19.95Subscription: $74.95/yr.



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Departments• Flashback • Ask MHQ• The War List • Tactical Exercises• Artists on War • Extra Round• Book Reviews• Fighting Words

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1916Black Jack Pershingon the huntfor Pancho Villa

Churchill,Gettysburgand Jeb Stuart

How torturemade acomeback

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TET 1968: The Inside StoryThe firsthand account of Lieutenant General Fred Weyand’s closest aide and personal bodyguard during the Tet Offensive who was privy to all of his communications, transmission of orders and telephone conversations with General William Westmoreland.

The Story Behind Most Famous Embassy Assault PhotosPortfolio: Dickey Chappel’s Vietnam


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How to Fight a SuperpowerChris Noel: Antidote to Hanoi HannahChewing up Charlie in the Renegade WoodsPortfolio: Kids in War


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POWs Left Behind: The Evidence UnpluggedDonut Dollies Under FireTiger Tales

SPECIAL ROLLING THUNDER 25th ANNIVERSARY INSERT/OFFICIAL EVENT GUIDE


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Music to March ByThe Vietnam War infused a decade of popular music with both pro-war and antiwar messages.

Battle for Nong Son Coal MineDeath of “The Chief” at Ia Drang

October 2012AD CLOSE 6.12.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.19.12 ON SALE 8.7.12

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How the Chopper Changed WarfareThe evolution of the use of helicopters in Vietnam profoundly altered how war would be waged in the future.

What Happened to General Loan

Portfolio: Helicopters in Action


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Soldiering On in a Dying WarThe real story of the infamous incidents of insubordination at Landing Zone Pace during the phase of U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.

Secrets of the Ho Chi Minh TrailUncle Sam’s Flying Fire Trucks

About The MagazineVietnam is the only magazine exclusively devoted to telling the full story behind the Vietnam War, with gripping firsthand accounts and carefully researched articles by veterans of this controversial and divisive conflict.





Departments• Letters • Editorial• My War• Arsenal• News• Homefront• Interview• Reviews• Offerings

Why the OSS taught Ho and Giap to throw grenades

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OPERATION ATTLEBORO

BREAKPOINTUntested GIs vs.The North’s best

Last 11MarinesOut ofSaigon

How the U.S. stoleVietnam’s navy

Pulitzer photosFrom Dong Xoai



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About The MagazineWild West features shootists, scouts, soldiers, soiled doves, sodbusters, bronc busters, gunfighters, peacemakers, Rocky mountain men, Plains buffalo hunters, prairie entrepreneurs, uncon-ventional women and many others who made their distinctive mark on the West when it was truly Wild!




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Departments• Art of the West• Book and DVD Reviews• Ghost Towns• Guns of the West• Collections• Go West• Indian Life • Pioneers and Settlers• Gunfighters and Lawmen• Roundups• Western Enterprise• Westerners



FEBRUARY 2012AD CLOSE 10.11.11 MATERIALS DUE 10.18.11 ON SALE 12.6.11

Cover Story

150th Anniversary of the Homestead ActThe most important legislature effecting the settlement of the West (the Homestead National Monument is in Beatrice, Nebraska).

Ghost Town: Vulture and Vulture Mine, Arizona

Western Enterprise: Warren store in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Collections: Four museums devoted to Laura Ingalls Wilder (“Little House on the Prairie” author) in Mansfield, Missouri; Walnut Grove, Min-nesota; DeSmet, South Dakota; and Burr Oak, Iowa.

Guns of the West: Guns of the Arizona Rangers

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Cover StoryFamous Lakota Chief Red Cloud’s Early Years

Collections: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum in Houston

Ghost Town: Coloma, California

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Cover StoryLibby and George Custer’s relationship by Paul Andrew Hutton

Indian Life: Buffalo Bill vs. Yellow Hand

Ghost Town: Mystic, N.D.

Collections: Western Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs

AUGUST 2012AD CLOSE 4.10.12 MATERIALS DUE 4.17.12 ON SALE 6.5.12

Cover StoryAll about the most famous photo in the West, the tintype of Billy the Kid

Collections: Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona

Ghost town: Coolidge, Montana

OCTOBER 2012AD CLOSE 6.12.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.19.12 ON SALE 8.7.12

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Fatal Mix-up on Front Street (another look at Tombstones’ Gunfight at the O.K. Corral)

Ghost Town: Masonic, California

DECEMBER 2012AD CLOSE 8.14.12 MATERIALS DUE 8.21.12 ON SALE 10.9.12

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U.S. Dragoons for Texans in 18437th Cavalrymen who fought Wild Bill Hickok

Art of the West: C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls

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About The MagazineWorld War II magazine covers every aspect of history’s greatest modern conflict with vivid, authoritative writing by the world’s top historians. Each issue is strikingly designed and contains a lively mix of stories about soldiers, leaders, tactics, and weapons including detailed battle maps, riveting firsthand accounts and reviews of books, movies and video games.





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�� Frantic countdown to theDoolittleRaid�� Spies inSweater Sets�� SchnellbootThe Nazis’ deadly torpedo boat

January/February 2012AD CLOSE 10.4.11 MATERIALS DUE 10.11.11 ON SALE 11.29.11

The Battle of MidwayIn a new reappraisal of the pivotal battle, author Craig L. Symonds traces three key moments in the battle to three decisions, by three leaders.

Their Darkest HourThe London CagePortfolio: Kriegie Life

March/April 2012AD CLOSE 12.6.11 MATERIALS DUE 12.13.11 ON SALE 1.31.12

Patton, as Seen by His EnemiesLegend has it Patton’s enemies revered and feared the man. A look at his reputation among the men he aimed to conquer.

Code TalkerAngler Rescue Portfolio: Ground Zero at Hiroshima

May/June 2012AD CLOSE 1.31.12 MATERIALS DUE 2.7.12 ON SALE 3.27.12

“Old Gravel Voice” Ernest N. Harmon is virtually unknown today, but the American general rates as one of the best tank commanders of the war.

The Royce Raid The Nazi Bear

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Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising pitted the Polish underground army, one of the war’s largest, against the German army in nearly two month of bitter fighting.

Lost Plans Dr. Seuss

September/October 2012AD CLOSE 6.5.12 MATERIALS DUE 6.12.12 ON SALE 7.31.12

Rise of the NazisThe fascinating perspective of Americans living in Germany in the 1930s.

Battle of Yenangyaung Guadalcanal Coastwatchers Eyewitness

November/December 2012AD CLOSE 8.7.12 MATERIALS DUE 8.14.12 ON SALE 10.2.12

Drumbeat America’s Atlantic coast was the target of a methodical campaign by Germany’s U-boats. The threat was real; and very close.

Bill SlimGermany’s Air Raid Shelters



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