The Thompson Submachine Gun: From Prohibition Chicago to World War II
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Martin Pegler
Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The Somme Historical Centre (www.martinpegler.com), where visitors can see the technology used in the 1914-18 trench warfare. He is currently an author and firearms consultant and he also lectures at local Great War museums. He is the author of a number of books including The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004). In the 1980s he had the privilege of interviewing many World War I veterans about their wartime experiences, and the recordings are now part of the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.
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Reviews for The Thompson Submachine Gun
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the first book I've read in this series and it does a nice job of describing the origins of this weapon, how it became a cultural icon (in the hands of American criminals) before it became a standardized piece of military kit in the Allied arsenal, and its virtues and liabilities when compared to other submachine guns.