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WELCOME TO ISSUE 25

Welcome CONTRIBUTORS TOMGARNER

History of War’s newest
recruit has escaped his
former life as a Tudor day
labourer and leapt forward a
“I had rather a plain russet-coated captain that knows century to bring us thrilling
what he ights for and loves what he knows, than that accounts of the Battle of

Rocroi (page 46), as well as
which you call a gentlemen, and is nothing else” the rise and fall of England’s
New Model Army (page 74).
– Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England
NICKSOLDINGER
n a fight, gaining the edge character and discipline of his men. Nick’s back for another year
on your opponent in any His ‘New Model’ gave England its plunging the murky depths
Iway possible often makes i rst standing army, and a dei nite of military history for your
the difference between victory edge that would last for centuries. enjoyment. In 2016’s irst
and defeat. Historically this has cover feature he investigates
prompted the development of the incredible technology
and tactics that blew the
new technologies, from humble
swords of the ancient world to Third Reich’s submarines out
of the water (page 26).
the modern fighting machines of
the 20th century. LEIGHNEVILLE
In the Battle of the Atlantic,
This issue Leigh has re-
new wartime tech was rapidly watched American Sniper in
produced to re-gain the edge on
preparation for his feature
Nazi Germany, whose U-boats running down history’s ten
threatened the very survival of the Tim Williamson deadliest sharpshooters,
free world. Editor from the crack shots in
In the British Civil Wars, Oliver the trenches of WWI to the
Cromwell didn’t ind victory in a EMAIL intrepid jungle hunters of the
new deadly invention, but in the frontline@imagine-publishing.co.uk Vietnam War (page 34).
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Read about how vital shipping
convoys were protected from
Nazi U-boats on page 26

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