The Social History Of The Machine Gun

Author : John Ellis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801833588
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social History of the Machine Gun written by John Ellis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1986-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It necessitated a technological response: first the armored tank, then the jet fighter, and, perhaps ultimately, the hydrogen bomb.

Author : Anthony Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312934774
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Gun written by Anthony Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The machine gun is a uniquely American invention that revolutionized the way in which war was waged. This first look in more than 30 years at its social and historical impact also profiles the inventors responsible for the creation of the weapon. Martin's Press.

Author : Alec Russell
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586487388
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring Me My Machine Gun written by Alec Russell and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa, from the hopeful reconciliation of Nelson Mandela's rule to the disappointments of Thabo Mbeki's administration to the possible election of Jacob Zuma as president.

Author : Karen Blumenthal
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1626720851
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tommy written by Karen Blumenthal and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds—but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade—and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time—Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control. Critically-acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal tells the fascinating story of this famous and deadly weapon—of the lives it changed, the debate it sparked, and the unprecedented response it inspired.

Author : Frank William Arthur Hobart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877492160
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictorial History of the Machine Gun written by Frank William Arthur Hobart and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joe Urschel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250020808
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of Fear written by Joe Urschel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job. Hoover's agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines and when Kelly bungles the snatch job, Hoover senses his big opportunity. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines, and generating headlines across America along the way--a historical mystery/thriller for the ages. Joe Urschel's The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI.

Author : Bill Yenne
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312383266
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tommy Gun written by Bill Yenne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military and cultural history of the infamous World War II firearm documents its notorious use by mobsters and NRA members as well as its ubiquitous presence in Hollywood films, charting its many names and role as a symbol of 20th-century culture.

Author : Frederick Victor Longstaff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Machine Gun written by Frederick Victor Longstaff and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James H. Willbanks
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 : 1851094806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Guns written by James H. Willbanks and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a look at the history of the machine gun and how it revolutionized modern ground combat. It provides technical details on all significant models of machine guns from their introduction in the late 1800s to the present and includes a list of machine guns in chronological order.

Author : Eliot Rahal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940878500
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machine Gun Kelly's Hotel Diablo written by Eliot Rahal and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between Heaven and Hell lies a waystation for the soul--a place where your deeds in life are the keys to your eternity in the afterlife--at the Hotel Diablo. And it's Lydia Lopez's first night behind the front desk. Every guest's got a story to tell and a lesson to learn... Co-written by film and music superstar Machine Gun Kelly with Eliot Rahal (Knock Em Dead) and Ryan Cady (Future State: Green Lantern). Art by Martin Morazzo (Ice Cream Man), Victor Ibaez (Jean Grey), Amilcar Pinna (Generation X), Nelson Blake II (Byte-Sized), Roberta Ingranata (Doctor Who), and Rachel Smartt.