NEXT MONTH – AUGUST 2021 ISSUE

Of the 42 plots to kill Adolf Hitler none were more audacious than that of Operation Valkerie. It combined both a bomb plot to assassinate the Führer during a meeting at the Wolfsschanze and a scheme to use the Reserve Army to seize key installation in Berlins while rounding up leading members of the NSDAP. By July 1944 defeat of the Third Reich was assured with the Allies in Normandy and the Soviets crushing German armies in the East. Hitler was determined to fight on to the bitter end, and only a change of leadership could rescue Germany. Claus von Stauffenberg, a

Colonel in the Army, was given the task of planting the bomb and of all the attempts on Hitler’s life, this was the one that came closest. Read our cover story to find out the details.

We also have Third Reich military daggers, the raid on Kronstadt in WWI, the Polar medal of 1904, the latest ways of displaying and maintaining your militaria collection, and a look at one of the CIA’s strangest weapons. On the classics side we’re looking at the Macedonian army of Alexander the Great and the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814-1816.

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