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PL-37 Light Artillery Wagon

THE BREAKUP OF YUGOSLAVIA • Whether as a kingdom or as a socialist republic, the union of southern Slavs proved an impossible experiment

When All Fell to Pieces

Balkans’ Complex History

KILLING KÖNIGSBERG • At the outset of World War I Royal Navy ships off East Africa spent months tracking the German light cruiser, but it took a big-game hunter to finally bring down the elusive warship

CLOSE CALLS • For more than a century aviators have gone in harm’s way in the service of frontline troops

THE DAY COMBINED ARMS PREVAILED • Amid the Thirty Years’ War Protestant commander Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden finally crossed swords with Catholic commander Johann Tserclaes in 1631 at Breitenfeld, Saxony

PRACTICALLY IRREPLACEABLE • He may not have impressed Winston Churchill, but Field Marshal Sir John Dill proved an essential liaison between the American and British chiefs of staff during World War II

DEATH WITHIN THE WALLS • At the outset of the Peloponnesian War the Athenian-allied city-state of Plataea came under siege from the same Greek forces that a half century earlier had driven off Persian invaders

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