Description: Hotchkiss Machine Gun (WPN 71) John Walter (Author), Adam Hook, & Adam Gilliand (Illustrators) Featuring contemporary photographs and full-color artwork, this title explores the action-packed history of the Hotchkiss machine gun and its derivatives, which were used around the globe for nearly fifty years.Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired. Although the Hotchkiss would be overshadowed by the water-cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness during the Russo-Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was successful enough to persuade Laurence Benét and Henri Mercié to develop the Modèle Portative: a man-portable version which, it was hoped, could move with infantrymen as they advanced. Later mounted on tanks and aircraft, it became the first automatic weapon to obtain a "kill" in aerial combat.Though it served the French and US armies during World War I (and also the British in areas where French and British units fought alongside each other), the Odkolek-Hotchkiss system was to have its longest-term effect in Japan. Here, a succession of derivatives found favor in theaters of operations in which water-cooling could be more of a liability than an asset. When US forces landed on Saipan, Guam, and Iwo Jima, battling their way from island to island across the Pacific, it was the "Woodpecker"--the Type 92 Hotchkiss, with its characteristically slow rate of fire--which cut swathes through their ranks. Supported by contemporary photographs and full-color illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun. Series: Weapon (Book 71)Paperback: 80 pagesPublisher: Osprey Publishing (November 26, 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1472836162ISBN-13: 9781472836168Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.2 x 9.7 inches
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Series: Weapon
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Book Title: Hotchkiss Machine Guns : from Verdun to Iwo Jima
Number of Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.2 in
Topic: Military / World War II, Military / Weapons, Military / World War I
Illustrator: Yes, Gilliland, Alan, Hook, Adam
Genre: History
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Item Length: 7.3 in
Author: John Walter
Item Width: 9.8 in
Book Series: Weapon Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
