Author:
HILL Tracie L.
Title:
Thompson: The American Legend. The First Submachine Gun.
Price:
£120.00
Year:
1996
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Collector Grade Publications Incorporated
City of Publication:
Coburg, Ontario, Canada
Summary:
xxiii ? 559 pages, landscape 4to 456 illustrations and 22 colour plates throughout from photographs, line drawings, gun breakdowns etc, pictorial end papers. Publishers black faux leather, a fine copy in dj. A compilation of the writings of several modern scholars, together with contemporary accounts of events as they took place, concerning the life and times of the Thompson. While not the first gun to fire pistol ammunition automatically, the term "Sub Machine Gun" was in fact coined to describe the Thompson.
Ref:
23438
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