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WORLD WAR I
Brutal 1917
Offensive
in Flanders
Battle for
WORLD WAR II
BERLIN
CIVIL WAR
Jackson at
Cedar Mountain
MEDAL OF HONOR
SPRING 2022
Hero at Gettysburg
BRITISH PARATROOPERS, ENGLISH CIVIL WAR,
WORLD WAR I HEAVY BOMBERS,
CRUSADERS VS. SARACENS, AND MUCH MORE!
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MILITARY HERITAGE
SPRING 2022
Volume 24, No. 1
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Spring 2022
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SAVAGE FIGHT FOR SEELOW HEIGHTS
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By Victor Kamenir
German General-Colonel Gotthard Heinrici disrupted the Red Army’s plans to capture
Seelow Heights in April 1945 on the road to Berlin. But his forces were no match for
the mighty Red Army.
BLOODY COLLISION AT
CEDAR MOUNTAIN
By David A. Norris
Stonewall Jackson rode forward to rally his troops when they wavered in the
face of a bold attack by Nathaniel Banks in August 1862 on the outskirts of
Culpeper, Virginia.
DARING STRIKE ON HAVANA
By Mike Phifer
A British task force moved rapidly to capture the strategic Spanish naval base at
Havana in summer 1762 before disease had a chance to ravage the Redcoat ranks.
BLOODY REPULSE AT FONTENOY
By Robert L. Durham
When the Duke of Cumberland’s crack British infantry breached the French line at
Fontenoy in May 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French com-
mander had a surprise in store for them.
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HARD-WON VICTORY AT PASSCHENDAELE
By Mike Phifer
British and Commonwealth troops endured a living hell of mud and blood in autumn
1917 as they drove toward the town of Passchendaele in the face of fierce German
resistance.
COLU MNS
06 EDITORIAL
08 VALOR: Union Lieutenant Alonzo Cushing
12 WEAPONS: WWI Gotha Heavy Bomber
18 UNIFORM: British Paratrooper
20 SOLDIERS: Suleiman the Magnificent
94 BOOKS: Tank Battles of the Cold War
96 GAMES
Cover:
A wounded British soldier shows off his steel helmet, which has been
pierced by a piece of shrapnel, during fighting in December 1916. See story
page 66. Photo: Imperial War Museum
ROYALIST RECKONING AT NASEBY
By Joshua Shepherd
King Charles I’s outnumbered Royalist army faced the Parliamentarian New
Model Army at Naseby in 1645. At stake was the future of the Royalist cause.
CRUSADER CALAMITY AT DAMASCUS
By William E. Welsh
The leaders of the Second Crusade decided once they arrived in the Holy Land to try
to capture Damascus. But their slow advance allowed a host of Muslim forces to rally
to the defense of the great Syrian city.
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