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ATO Annual editions feature more pages, bigger games, no columnists, but some really eclectic articles, and fewer ads.

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2021 Annual - Operation Roundup

2021 Annual - Operation Roundup

“[Marshall’s] plans are fraught with the gravest dangers. . . . The prospects of success are small and dependent on a mass of unknowns, whilst the chances of disaster are great and dependent on a mass of well established military facts.”

-- General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff



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2020 Annual - The Cruelest Month

2020 Annual - The Cruelest Month

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. "

-- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land



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2019 Annual - La Vendée - 1793

2019 Annual - La Vendée - 1793

"Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue."

-- Maximilien Robespierre



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2018 Annual - Sea Monsters!

2018 Annual - Sea Monsters!

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."

-- filmmaker Werner Herzog

To face monstrous ships at sea, possibly harboring radical technologies, can make any sailor's blood run cold. The designers featured in this issue have drawn on their own nautical fears and fascinations to explore what really (or could have) happened....



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2017 Annual - Six Days of War

2017 Annual - Six Days of War

“Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all.”

-- Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol (May 15th, 1967)

Today, it is hard to fathom the concept of a war—a serious, shooting war with countries committing ALL their resources—starting and coming to a very decisive finish in just six days!



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2016 Annual - Confederate Rails

2016 Annual - Confederate Rails

“We have stretched out lines of railroads from the seaboard to the mountains; dug down the hills for them, and filled up the valleys for them, at a ruinous cost.”

-- Alexander H. Stephens (Vice President, CSA)

Can the Confederacy's railroad companies battle Union military advances, their own government's decrees (and neglects), the rapidly inflating and worthless money, plus wear and tear on their irreplaceable equipment, to stave off hunger and defeat among the South's armies?

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2015 Annual - Four Roads to Paris

2015 Annual - Four Roads to Paris

“I shall maneuver the French right out of their Maginot line without firing a shot!”

-- Adolf Hitler, 1940

But, why, exactly did France fall? The four designers featured in this issue have drawn some very different and startling conclusions about what really happened....



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2014 Annual - Set Europe Ablaze

2014 Annual - Set Europe Ablaze

“Special Operations Executive were amateur, dangerous and bogus.”

-- Head of the SIS, Sir Stewart Menzies

There were turf wars from the start. The SIS did not want SOE disrupting their agents' intelligence-gathering operations by blowing up bridges and factories. Other powerful groups, like Bomber Command, also despised SOE and resented loaning them aircraft for 'unethical' clandestine missions. (Their plan to win the war called for bombing Germany to its knees.) But with Churchill as their guardian angel the SOE survived and fought on for victory....



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