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Author | : David Lister |
Publisher | : Frontline Books |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526787164 |
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Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept involves a steel rod – the ‘spigot’ – onto which the bomb is placed before it is fired. This design was, as David Lister reveals, the basis of a number of successful weapons used during the Second World War. The myth of the PIAT man-portable anti-tank weapon is, for example, tied closely to British paratroopers struggling in the ruins of Arnhem with an inadequate design, one inferior to the German equivalent. Similarly, the myth of the Blacker Bombard is of a useless weapon, one of dubious quality, that was dumped on the unsuspecting Home Guard. In reality, neither scenario is the case. Both weapons were devastating creations of war, often superior to any other nation’s counterpart. At sea, the Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon was another powerful spigot weapon. It was undoubtedly capable of sweeping the U-boats from the sea and even winning the Battle of the Atlantic before it had really begun. That it did not is one of the great scandals of the Second World War, one hidden by wartime secrecy until now. In Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace the author explores a large number of spigot weapons from the Second World War, many of which were created by the fertile mind of one of Britain’s great weapon inventors, Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker.
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Air warfare |
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Author | : United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Air warfare |
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Author | : United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
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Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Air warfare |
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Author | : United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : United States. War Department |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1945 |
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Author | : David Lister |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526714558 |
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History forgets. Files are lost and mislaid. But this book seeks to shine a light, offering a collection of cutting edge pieces of historical research detailing some of the most fascinating arms and armament projects from the 1920s to the end of the 1940s, nearly all of which had previously been lost to history.Included here are records from the UKs MI10 (the forerunner of GCHQ) which tell the story of the mighty Japanese heavy tanks and their service during the Second World War. Other chapters expand on the development of British armour, including the story of infantry tanks from the 1920s right through to the end of the Second World War and beyond.Other items placed beneath the microscope in this fascinating history include a wide variety of guns, rocket launchers, super heavy tanks and countless pieces of specialised armour. Previously overlooked, hidden under layers of dust in archives up and down the country, the histories of these objects has finally been uncovered.
Author | : Michael Norman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 958 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374272603 |
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This major new work about World War II exposes the myths of military heroism as shallow and inadequate. "Tears in the Darkness" makes clear, with great literary and human power, that war causes suffering for people on all sides.
Author | : Jonathan Mallory House |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Armies |
ISBN | : 1428915834 |
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Author | : Nick Smart |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351125869 |
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The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons. In an area where there is no shortage of material to choose from, the articles presented here are distinguished for their depth of scholarship, stylistic elegance and inter-disciplinary confidence.