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World at War Issue Index
World at War
#16 | FEB − MAR 2011
FEATURES
Partisan:
A Strategic Analysis of the War in Yugoslavia, 1942−44
A confused war that worked out to no one’s satisfaction.
by Javier Romero
Myths & Realities of Carrier Warfare in the Pacific, 1941−42
Was the aircraft carrier really a revolutionary new weapon that replaced the battleship?
by Joseph Miranda
Planning for the
Invasion of Malta, 1942
The war in Europe might’ve been much different had the Axis ‘pulled the trigger’ on their detailed plan to conquer Malta.
by John D. Burtt & David Pastore
The Poltava Raid:
Act One of the Cold War?
On 22 June 1944, a Luftwaffe strike on a Ukrainian air base being used by US B-17s destroyed 47 of those bombers along with a lot of Soviet-American mutual trust.
by Jonathan Lupton
GAME EDITION RULES
Partizan!
by Javier Romero
DEPARTMENTS
DEPARTMENTS
Design Corner
by Joseph Miranda
Game Preview
The South Seas Campaign
Observation Post
• Historical Perspective
Flight as Propaganda in Fascist Italy
by Nathaniel Edwards
• Movers & Shakers
A Tough & Smart Enemy
by Nick Capo
• Compare & Contrast
Churchill’s Personal Security
by Roger Mason
• Behind the Lines
Frank Loesser’s WWII Songs
by Jorgen Rasmussen
• Strategic Backwaters
De Gaulle’s Teacup Tempest
by Vernie Liebl
Media Reviews
World at War
#17 | APR–MAY 2011
FEATURES
Leningrad, 1941:
Manstein’s Truly “Lost Victory”
One of Hitler’s great commanders misses an opportunity to defeat the Soviet Union.
by Joseph Miranda
The Battle That Won’t End:
Operation Anvil/Dragoon, August 1944
After two-thirds of a century, strategists are still arguing over the validity of the Allied August ’44 invasion of southern France.
by John D. Burtt
The US Navy’s Yangtze River Patrol,
1937–41
Throughout the 1930s, assignment to Shanghai was one of the most pleasant in the US Navy. It didn’t stay that way.
by Eric Niderost
Britain’s Special Operations Executive
Churchill hoped the SOE would “set Europe ablaze,” but its legacy was to help lay the technical foundations for much of the terrorism committed around the world since 1945.
by David March
GAME EDITION RULES
Leningrad ’41
by Joseph Miranda
DEPARTMENTS
Design Corner
by Joseph Miranda
Game Preview
The Hardest Days
Observation Post
• Movers & Shakers
Karl May: Hitler’s Favorite Author
by Blaine Taylor
• Strategic Backwaters
The Liberation of Vichy Madagascar
by Vernie Liebl
• Compare & Contrast
US & Japanese Pilot Selection Methods
by Kelly Bell
• Mysteries Revealed
Little Ship — Big Story
by Ken MacFarlane
• Dirty Little Secrets
Chinese Collaborationist Forces in World War II
by Terence Co
Media Reviews
NEXT ISSUE (#18)
• South Seas Campaign
• Changkufeng Hill
• Hatten-Rittershoffen
• Soviet Air Power
World at War
#18 | JUN–JUL 2011
FEATURES
Analysis: The South Seas Campaign, 1942-43
After Pearl Harbor the US makes a new
strategy for the war in the Pacific.
by Joseph Miranda
Samurai vs. Bear:
The Battle of Changkufeng Hill,
July-August 1938
The Japanese won over Soviet armor in
1938, but in so doing they set themselves
up for a great defeat the following year.
by Terence Co
Hell in a Cold, Small Place:
The Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen
At the small villages of Hatten and
Rittershoffen, the Germans’ O peration
North Wind offensive was blunted
before it even really got started.
by Allyn Vannoy
The Soviet Air Force in World War II:
1941-45
The Soviet air force proved to be
a war-winning force, but it was
a long flight to get there.
by Joseph Miranda
GAME EDITION RULES
The South Seas Campaign: 1942-43
by Joseph Miranda
DEPARTMENTS
Design Corner
by Joseph Miranda
Game Preview
Gross Deutschland Panzer
Observation Post
• Mysteries Revealed
Myths of the Singapore Guns
by Stanley L. Falk
• On the Seas
Hitler’s Titanic: The Wilhelm Gustloff
by Edmond N. Gaudelli, Jr.
• Broader Perspective
Germany’s Evacuation of the Baltic
by Carl Otis Schuster
• Historical Perspective
Nazi Art Theft in World War II
by Annie Laura Smith
• I Remember
Charlie Bell’s War
as told to Andrew Hind
Media Reviews
NEXT ISSUE (#19)
• Hardest Days:
The Battle of Britain, 1940
• Tarawa Was a Brawl
• Afrikakorps Logistics, 1941– 43
• German East Front Fortifications
World at War #19 | AUG – SEP 2011
FEATURES
The Hardest Days: Turning Points in the Battle of Britain
by Roger Mason
Tarawa Was a Brawl: Tactical Analysis of a Pivotal Battle
by James I. Marino
Logistics in the Western Desert: 1941– 42
by Joseph Miranda
German East Front Fortifications
by J.E. Kaufmann
DEPARTMENTS
Design Corner
by Joseph Miranda
Game Preview
Rhineland ‘36
Observation Post
Military History on Money
Too Little, Too Late
by Ty Bomba
Pure Speculation
The Port Chicago Blast
by Andrew Hind
Skill vs. Luck
Battle of the Komandorski Islands
by Ken MacFarlane
Movers & Shakers
Guy Anson Maunsell
by Jon Cecil
Media Reviews
GAME EDITION RULES
The Hardest Days
by John
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