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Reconnaissance Report & Diary 6 Steady As She Goes 8 2012 MARKET OUTLOOK

I Predict A Riot 12 URBAN JUNGLE WARFARE

Once More Unto the Breach 18 ARMY BUILDING FOR MONS GRAUPIUS

The High Ground 24 WARGAMING MYSELF

Zulu Dawn

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Brandy Station 36 PRELUDE TO GETTYSBURG

Patton Takes Champagne 42 BATTLE OF THE BULGE

Darker Horizons 50 BUILD A ROCKET, BOYS

Modelling Project 56 BUILDING A GREEK TEMPLE

Book Reviews 62 From the Archive 66

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