Название: Tommy Gun: How General Thompson's Submachine Gun Wrote History
Автор: Bill Yenne
Издательство: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 0312383266
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Thompson submachine gun has gone by many names, and for nearly a century the gun’s image has been indelibly marked on the popular consciousness. In this broad-reaching cultural and military history, Bill Yenne charts the tommy gun's unpredictable and one-of-a-kind career, from its infamy in the hands of Al Capone and the Chicago mobsters, to its shady days with the IRA, to its indelible place in the arsenal of World War II, and its truly immortal and ongoing role in Hollywood.
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