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Somme Bloodbath
Pershing’s Medals
USN to Israeli Navy
Ortiz of the OSS
Dan Snow on History
Full-Auto Firepower
HistoryNet.com
MARCH 2016
The senseless slaughter of the Light Brigade
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Letters
6
News
8
Reviews
72
Features
24
The Futile
Charge of the
Light Brigade
The British cavalry charged in the
wrong direction—who to blame?
By Ron Soodalter
36
Pershing’s
Gallant Legacy
“Black Jack” Pershing sought
to inspire his doughboys, so he
created America’s decorations
By Fred Borch
Departments
14
Interview
Dan Snow
16
Valor
The Crew of
USS
Merrimac
On the cover:
The British Light Brigade meets disaster at Balaclava, Crimea, in 1854. PHOTO: Richard Caton Woodville/National Army Museum, London/Bridgeman Images
War Games
79
Captured!
80
42
Full-Auto
Firepower
The machine gun has evolved
from its hand-cranked origins
into a fearsome force multiplier
By Jon Guttman
56
Zero Hour: First
Day on the Somme
Shrill whistles, shell bursts and
the hiss of bullets accompanied
the British bloodletting in France
By Andrew Roberts
48
The Man and
the Legend
A French Foreign Legionnaire
and U.S. Marine, Pierre Ortiz
became a fabled OSS agent
By Laura H. Lacey
64
Ben-Gurion’s
Bathtub Corps
Israel’s nascent navy was a
laughingstock—until a young
American officer took the helm
By J. Wandres
18
What We
Learned From...
Queenston
Heights, 1812
20
Hardware
MaxxPro MRAP
76
Hallowed Ground
Jasna Góra
Monastery,
Cz¸ stochowa,
e
Poland
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U.S. ARMY AND MARINE CORPS MRAPS,
BY MIKE GUARDIA, © OSPREY PUBLISHING, LTD.; U.S. MARINE CORPS HISTORY DIVISION; BRETT AFFRUNTI

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