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Paperback. Zustand: Good. Deveau (cover) (illustrator). First Edition. 72 pages. Features: Crisis in Berlin - Is it a Soviet Boomerang?; The Reds - Order of Battle; Map of Red Rockets and Missiles in Europe; Map of the (Military) Ring Around Russia; Bell Telephone ad features photo of the Mercury Control room at Cape Canaveral; Marine Corps Reserve; Interview with Capt. B.H. Liddell Hart, the father of the blitzkrieg; Deterrence or Defence - JFK reviews B.H. Liddell Hart's 1960 book; The Unorthodox Israeli Army - photo-illustrated article, including photo of British MajGen Orde Wingate; The Eternal Spirit - famous Marines of the past; The IG and Staff NCOs; Wanted - Hairy Fisted Marines - advertising intended to attract combatants, rather than those interested in learing a trade; P.I. (Parris Island) Today; Philippine Marines; Terrorist Activity in Malaya; Baseplate McGurk; FMF 1965 - proposed organization and major equipment; Transfers and Promotions; Back cover color-photo ad for the McDonnell Phantom II fighter; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Sutcliffe, Norman; Prater, E.; Nicolson, W.C.; Skelton, J.R.; Crombie, Charles; Vedder, S.H.; Wood, Stanley L.; De Walton, John; Prater, E.; Robinson, T.H.; Tennant, Dudley (illustrator). First Edition. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Mad Mike" - Part I - The adventures of a well-known South Seas character, including his romantic connection with the beautiful half-caste Laumona; The Forest Dwellers of Arabuko - Photo-illustrated article on the shy and elusive East African Sanya race; My Wife's Double - told by Sidney Fitzgerald, now chief engineer with a firm in Portuguese East Africa; In Quest of the Unknown - Part I - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges meets the strange islanders of the San Blas Archipelago and the mysterious Chucunaque - illustrated with photos; My Chinese Crystal - This story of events surrounding an ancient crystal, believed to be stolen from a Chinese temple, will keenly interest students of the occult; The Very Keen Man - How an energetic Central African Native Commissioner conceived a Great Scheme - and what happened to it; The Great Pay-Train Hold-Up - For several years the police of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were at their wit's end to deal with an epidemic of pay-roll robberies; The Big-Game Trapper - R.D.S. describes some thrilling experiences encountered by well-known trappers; Through Savage Europe - Part III - Richard Carline describes his holiday painting tour through Serbia, Bosnia, and Montenegro - with photos; "Down Texas Way" - The wife of a Texas rancher tells the tale of three high-spirited youngsters, a desperate gang of escaped convicts, a night alarm, and a mysterious disappearance; Across the Great Sahara - Part IV - The story of a wonderful exploit - a camel-back journey from south to north through the Sahara - with photos; Donnelly's Luck - An old prospector strikes it rich, only to fall into the hands of rascally claim-jumpers; Twenty-Three Hours of Horror - A young fireman, Clermont Lafayette Staden, falls overboard from the American oil-tank steamer Fred W. Weller in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific; and more. 88 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Nibbling to backstrip, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this great vintage issue.