Battle Stories, December 1930

This December 1930 issue of Fawcett's Battle Stories, a 25-cent pulp magazine dedicated to military themes, features an authentic spy novel by Frederick C. Painton based on true exploits of an American spy. The fiction includes two action novelets: "Red Sabers of the Steppes" by Captain Tegery, following Sergeant Flynn's cavalry unit on the Siberian front, and "Terrence X. O'Leary of the Rainbow Division" by Arthur Guy Empey, a final installment war narrative. Multiple shorter air-sea action stories include "The Mad Gunner" (Dynamite Dugan), "Blazing the Torpedo Lanes" (Harold Bradley Say), "Ride 'Em Doughboy!" (Malcolm Douglas), "Bomb Patrol" (Gil Brewer), and others. A nonfiction section presents "Holding the Bridge at Bois Roger," a first-person account by Sergeant S. R. H. Evans that won the magazine's $50 monthly prize for thrilling war experiences. Additional features include "Steel-Ribbed Armies" and other military-focused departments.