Arsenal
The history and evolution of the weapons that shaped civilizations
Arsenal: The Thompson Submachine Gun
Designed to end the trench warfare of World War One, the Thompson submachine gun arrived too late for that war and instead became the defining weapon of American gangsters and Allied commandos.
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Arsenal: The StG 44 - The First True Assault Rifle
The German Sturmgewehr 44 solved the central problem of infantry combat in a single weapon. It came too late to save the Reich, but it changed the shape of every military rifle that followed.
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The MG42: How Hitler's Buzzsaw Set the Pattern for Every Modern Machine Gun
The German MG42 fired so fast it sounded like tearing canvas. Allied infantry called it Hitler's Buzzsaw. Its ancestors still arm NATO armies eighty years later.
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Arsenal: The M1 Garand, the Rifle That Won the War
Patton called it the greatest battle implement ever devised. The story of John Garand's semiautomatic rifle, the en-bloc clip, and the eight rounds that defeated three armies.
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