Machine Guns: A Pictorial, Tactical, and Practical History

by Jim Thompson

In Machine Guns: A Pictorial, Tactical, and Practical History author Jim Thompson offers useful information on machine guns and how they actually function in the field, enough history for you to understand how and why the guns were developed, and advice about the machine gun's best friend and worst enemy, ammunition. Detailing the models by country of development, Thompson includes weapons from the World War I era through today, and provides hundreds of photographs and illustrations. .

244 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Writer on sports and athletics.

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