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| hotchkiss m1909: Handbook Of The Hotchkiss M1909 Benét-Mercié Machine Gun Rifle Model of 1909 Pack Outfits & Accessories , 2023-12 This is a reprint of the 1917 Ordnance Department manual on the The Hotchkiss M1909 Benét-Mercié Machine Rifle Gun and it's Outfits & Accessories. It contains over 118 pages of full color period drawings and information on parts, assembly and accessories of the rifle. You will not be disappointed in this book! |
| hotchkiss m1909: Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons Gerald Prenderghast, 2018-04-04 From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower. This has inevitably led to a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world's most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47. The author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the semiautomatic pistol and the role of the submachine gun in improving the effectiveness of the infantryman. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Hotchkiss Machine Guns John Walter, 2019-11-28 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 favour in theatres 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-colour illustrations, this title explores the exciting and eventful history of the first successful gas-operated machine gun. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Greatest World War I Weapons of All Time Alex Trost, Vadim Kravetsky, 2014-06-13 Are you looking for a journey that will take you through this amazing obok, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Writing this book did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and maybe even test your knowledge. By the time you finish reading this book you will want to share it with others. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Mexican Revolution 1910–20 Philip Jowett, Alejandro de Quesada, 2013-10-20 Some of the most famous Western movies have been set against the background of the Mexican Revolution of the early 20th century. Now, for the first time in English, Osprey offer a concise but fact-packed account of the events, armies, uniforms and weapons of those ten chaotic and bloody years, putting in context such famous but half-understood names as Diaz, Pancho Villa, Zapata, Madero and Huerta. The text is illustrated with many rare and fascinating period photographs, and with eight detailed color plates of orfiristas and Rurales, Maderisitas, Federales, Villistas, Zapatistas,and US volunteers and intervention troops. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Desert Boys Peter Rees, 2012 About 1,300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3,500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. Thousands more carried the wounds of war for the rest of their lives. Countless families were left behind to mourn the dead and comfort the injured. A ripple effect of grief passed down the generations. This is the story of Australia's desert wars as never before told. Using letters, diaries, interviews, and unpublished memoirs, Desert Boys provides an intensely personal and gripping insight into the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of two generations of Australian soldiers. In many cases these were fathers and sons going to successive wars with all the tragedy, adventure, and hardship that brought. Desert Boys is a powerful and absorbing story of bravery and hope, of endurance and determination, of mateship and adversity a very long way from home. |
| hotchkiss m1909: os Melhores São Apenas Bons Para A Infantaria Elonir José Savian, 2021-05-05 O livro analisa a evolução da arma de Infantaria do Exército Brasileiro, da Independência até os dias atuais. Para tanto, aborda transformações ocorridas em elementos doutrinários, a exemplo de estruturas organizacionais; formas de recrutamento e de seleção de pessoal; provisão de armamentos, equipamentos e fardamentos; modos de adestramento da tropa e de formação e aperfeiçoamento de oficiais e praças; e processos de combate adotados e efetivamente empregados. Também versa sobre conflitos que puseram à prova o pensamento doutrinário vigente em determinados períodos, expondo seus pontos fortes e fracos. Ainda trata do desempenho dos soldados brasileiros, particularmente dos infantes, nas campanhas examinadas. Os capítulos da obra comportam etapas sucessivas da evolução da Infantaria. Todos foram divididos em duas partes: na primeira, versa-se sobre os elementos doutrinários supracitados; na segunda, aborda-se um conflito em que esses foram postos em evidência. O livro compõe-se de sete capítulos, concernentes aos seguintes períodos: fase inicial do Império (1822- 1852), auge do Império (1853-1870), transição do Império para a República (1871-1897), apogeu da “República Velha” (1898-1915), declínio da “República Velha” até meados do “Período Vargas” (1916-1938), participação do Brasil na II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), e tempos pós-II Guerra Mundial. Os conflitos analisados nas fases acima mencionadas são, na ordem, a Guerra contra Oribe e Rosas, a Guerra da Tríplice Aliança, a Guerra de Canudos, a Guerra do Contestado, a “Revolução Constitucionalista”, a Campanha da Força Expedicionária Brasileira e a Guerrilha do Araguaia. A pesquisa foi embasada em vasta bibliografia, de renomados pesquisadores; diversas memórias, de proeminentes militares; larga documentação oficial, a exemplo de legislações e relatórios; dentre diversas outras fontes. No estudo constam variados quadros, organogramas e esboços, elaborados com o propósito de destacar, detalhar ou facilitar a compreensão de conteúdos específicos. |
| hotchkiss m1909: British Naval Weapons of World War Two Norman Friedman, 2020-07-30 John Lambert was a renowned naval draughtsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published. These have now been acquired by Seaforth and this is the third of a planned series of albums on selected themes, reproducing complete sheets at a large page size, with an expert commentary and captioning. The initial volumes concentrate on British naval weaponry used in the Second World War, thus completing the project John Lambert was working on when he died. His interest was always focused on smaller warships and his weapons drawings tend to be of open mountings – the kind that present a real challenge to modelmakers – rather than enclosed turret guns, but he also produced drawings of torpedo tubes, underwater weapons, fire-control directors and even some specific armament-related deck fittings. Following the earlier volumes on destroyer and escort armament, this one covers the multitude of weapons carried by Coastal Forces, many of which were improvised, ad hoc or obsolescent, but eventually leading to powerful purpose-designed weaponry. An appendix covers the main deck guns carried by British submarines of this era. The drawings are backed by introductory essays by Norman Friedman, an acknowledged authority on naval ordnance, while a selection of photographs adds to the value of the book as visual reference. Over time, the series will be expanded to make this unique technical archive available in published form, a move certain to be welcomed by warship modellers, enthusiasts and the many fans of John Lambert’s work. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Tommy Gun Bill Yenne, 2009-10-13 The Trench Broom. The Annihilator. The Persuader. The Chopper. The Chicago Typewriter. The Tommy Gun. 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. The tommy gun is without a doubt the most famous, and the most infamous, American firearm of the twentieth century. Since its birth in the aftermath of World War I, the tommy gun has enjoyed a varied career on both sides of the law. Though General John T. Thompson invented it for the American military, it first found notoriety thanks to its part in events such at St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But when the United States entered World War II, the gun's true power as an essential, life-saving weapon made it an iconic weapon of the American GI. Full of incredible stories from the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific, America's gangland, and Hollywood studio back lots, Bill Yenne's Tommy Gun is the definitive story of this unique American icon. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Allenby's Gunners Alan H. Smith, 2017-11-30 Alan Smith's Allenby's Gunners tells the story of artillery in the highly successful World War I Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Following Gallipoli and the reconstitution of the AIF, a shortage of Australian gunners saw British Territorial artillery allotted to the Australian Light Horse and New Zealand Mounted Rifle brigades. It was a relationship that would prove highly successful and Allenby's Gunners provides a detailed and colorful description of the artillery war, cavalry and infantry operations from the first battles of Romani and Rafa, through the tough actions of Gaza, the Palestine desert, Jordan Valley and Amman to the capture of Jerusalem. The story concludes with the superb victory of Megiddo and the taking of Damascus until the theater armistice of 1918.Smith Covers the trials and triumphs of the gunners as they honed their art in one of the most difficult battlefield environments of the war. The desert proved hostile and unrelenting, testing the gunners, their weapons and their animals in the harsh conditions. The gunners' adversary, the wily and skillful Ottoman artillerymen, endured the same horrendous conditions and proved a tough and courageous foe.The light horsemen and gunners also owed much to the intrepid airmen of the AFC and RFC whose tactical and offensive bombing and counter-battery work from mid-1917 would prove instrumental in securing victory. This is an aspect of the campaign that is seamlessly woven throughout as the action unfolds.The Sinai and Palestine campaigns generally followed a pattern of heavy losses and setbacks for an initial period before allied forces eventually prevailed. This is a highly descriptive volume that tells and oft-neglected story and fills the gap in the record of a campaign in which Australians played a significant role. It is a welcome addition to the story of the Australians in the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Flying Guns of World War I A.G. Williams, Emmanuel Gustin, 2004-04-11 This book gives a complete picture of the Maritime Transport Industry so that those involved in shipping can see their own specific field of interest in perspective and understand how the basic mode of transportation works. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The FN MAG Machine Gun Chris McNab, 2018-07-26 For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals. Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status – reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced the weapon as their standard GPMG, including the British (as the L7) and the Americans (M240), and in total more than 80 nations have adopted the FN MAG. The machine gun has also been modified extensively for vehicular, naval, and aircraft platforms, demonstrating versatility in the air, on sea, and on land. In this book, Chris McNab charts the technical evolution of this extraordinary weapon, created by Belgian company Fabrique Nationale d'Herstal. From the jungles of South East Asia, to the deserts of the Middle East, and the icy battlefields of the Falklands, this study explores the origins, development, combat use, and legacy of the FN MAG machine gun, a dominant weapon in its field for more than a half-century. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Clive Cussler The Heist Jack Du Brul, 2025-04-29 Detective Isaac Bell faces an attack on the Federal Reserve in this all-new adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler. 1914: As America’s century of dominance dawns, the country’s greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They’re plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America’s history: the theft of a billion dollars from the newly created Federal Reserve. When an aerial attack is launched against Woodrow Wilson’s yacht during a meeting among the Federal Reserve’s branch leaders, Bell thwarts it, only to find that the strike was just the opening of an even deadlier gambit. It’s up to Bell to find the link between the attack, the mysterious death of a Newport heiress, and growing evidence of an unimaginably audacious heist. Double-cross and betrayal are Bell’s stock and trade, but this time, the deeper he delves into the puzzle, the less he seems to understand. He is in a race against his most ruthless opponent yet, to prevent a financial panic that would bring the United States to its knees. |
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| hotchkiss m1909: American Tactical Advancement in World War I Jeffrey LaMonica, 2017-08-16 The U.S. Army evolved into a truly modern fighting force during World War I. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, the infantry was its primary offensive arm. Training focused mainly on target practice, bayonet charges and marching drills. Antiquated tactics emphasized massive attack waves relying on ferocity to achieve battlefield objectives. Heavy casualties resulted when inexperienced American troops encountered entrenched German veterans trained in the use of modern artillery and machine guns. By war's end the American Expeditionary Force had progressed along a bloody learning curve, developing sophisticated techniques--small flexible formations, fire-and-maneuver and infiltration--for breaking the trench warfare stalemate. Eventually, the AEF integrated new weapons like poison gas, tanks and aircraft into its offensive tactics and pioneered the mechanized combined arms warfare still practiced by the U.S. Army. The exploits of the Fifth Red Diamond Division exemplify this critical period of development. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Hunt for Pancho Villa Alejandro de Quesada, 2012-03-20 On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. Black Jack†? Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, battles, and chases through the wild and uncharted Mexican countryside. While the Americans failed in their ultimate purpose of catching Villa, they did kill two of his top lieutenants. This book charts the progress of the entire enterprise, covering the dusty marches and the bitter gunfights in the streets of small border towns, analyzing the successes and failures of this unique military expedition. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Armies of the Greek-Italian War 1940–41 Phoebus Athanassiou, 2017-11-30 In October 1940 an Italian army some 200,000 strong invaded Greece across its largely undefended border with Albania. Although supported by Great Britain, at first by sea and in the air and later by landing British and ANZAC troops from North Africa, Greece bore the main brunt of the six-month war. Outclassed in materiel and outnumbered, LtGen Papagos's Greek army was so successful against the Italians in north-west Greece that, by 22 November 1940, it was advancing into Italian-held Albania. This would eventually force Hitler to send in German reinforcements to support his beleaguered Italian allies, delaying his invasion of the Soviet Union. Complete with contemporary photographs and full-colour uniform plates, this fascinating study explores the history, organization, and appearance of the armies of this oft forgotten conflict. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Once a World Craig McDonald, 2019-07-15 Border tensions are escalating to bloody violence; terrorist attacks on small-town American citizens and petty squabbles in far-flung locales threaten countless more lives. Welcome to America, circa 1916-1918, and two of the bloodiest conflicts that starkly defined an era. Teenage Hector Lassiter, an aspiring author inspired by propaganda and a siren’s song of throbbing war drums, lies about his age, mounts a horse, and storms across the Mexican border behind General “Black Jack” Pershing and George S. Patton to bring the terrorist and Revolutionary General Pancho Villa to justice. Soon, the still underage Hector is shipped off to the bloody trenches of France, fighting the so-called “War to End All Wars” where he meets fellow novelists-in-waiting John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. Once A World is a love story at once epic and intimate; a portrait of the artist, and his country of birth, at a defining moment in their storied history. Edgar, Anthony and Macavity Awards finalist Craig McDonald, author of the internationally bestselling Hector Lassiter series, delivers an adventure novel and historical thriller for the still-uncertain 21st Century. Praise for Craig McDonald: “The competition for the future of crime fiction is fierce, as it should be, but don’t take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He’s wily, talented and—rarest of the rare—a true original. I am always eager to see what he’s going to do next.” —Laura Lippman “With each of his Hector Lassiter novels, Craig McDonald has stretched his canvas wider and unfurled tales of increasingly greater resonance.” —Megan Abbott “Nobody does mad pulp history like Craig McDonald. Reading a Hector Lassiter novel is like having a great uncle pull you aside, pour you a tumbler of rye, and tell you a story about how the 20th century really went down.” —Duane Swierczynski “A writer of truly unique voice, approach and ambition.” —Michael Koryta |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Spanish Civil War Charles J Esdaile, 2018-10-10 The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939. In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much broader picture of the Spain of 1936–9 in which the chief themes are revolution and counter-revolution. While remaining conscious of the politics of the struggle, this book looks at the war as above all a military event, and as one in whose outbreak specifically military issues – particularly the split in the armed forces produced by the long struggle in Morocco (1909–27) – were fundamental. Across nine chapters that consider the war from beginning to endgame, Charles J. Esdaile revisits traditional themes from a new perspective, deconstructs many epics and puts received ideas to the test, as well as introducing readers to foreign-language historiography that has previously been largely inaccessible to an anglophone audience. In taking this new approach, The Spanish Civil War: A Military History is essential reading for all students of twentieth-century Spain. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War Alexander Clifford, 2020-03-20 The author of Fighting for Spain delivers “a military history focused on three major battles, Brunete, Belchite and Teruel . . . meticulously researched” (Historical Novel Society). Why did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War—and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses in this in-depth study of the People’s Army and the critical battles of Brunete, Belchite and Teruel. These battles represented the Republic’s best chance of military success, but after bitter fighting its forces were beaten back. From then on, the Republic, facing the superior army of Franco and the Nationalists, aided by Germany and Italy, faced inevitable defeat. This tightly focused and perceptive account of the military history of the Republic and its army is fascinating reading. As well as providing a broad overview of the strategy and tactics of the People’s Army and its Nationalist opponents, Alexander Clifford quotes vivid eyewitness testimony to give the reader a direct insight into the experience of the frontline soldiers on both sides during these three critical battles. Their recollections reveal to the reader what it was like to fight in the scorching heat of the plains around Brunete, in the shattered streets of Belchite—still ruined to this day—and in the frozen hills of Teruel. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Guns of Outlaws Gerry Souter, Janet Souter, 2014-11-03 “Chronicles the misdeeds of many of America’s worst miscreants, with special emphasis on the tools of the outlaw trade.” —American Rifleman From colonial-era rifles carried on the “Owlhoot Trail” to John Dillinger’s Colt pistols, the history of the American outlaw is told in guns—weapons that became each man’s personal signature. Authors Gerry and Janet Souter peer into these criminals’ choices of derringers, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, machine guns, and curious hybrids, giving us a glimpse into the minds behind the trigger fingers. With over 200 illustrations, Guns of Outlaws gives a unique look at the lives and the hardware of the most infamous outlaws in American history, and of the law enforcement officers who hunted them. As settlers moved further west, away from authority and soft city life into the Great Plains, the push for survival through the endless prairies and jagged isolating mountain ranges bred ruthless men. Most outlaws were technology freaks who seized upon the latest weapon innovations developed in the industrious East to provide an edge in the life-and-death cosmos of the Wild West. By the late 1930s and early 1940s, outlaws on horseback had given way to marauding bank robbers. Using fast cars and faster guns, they became folk heroes of the Great Depression, even as the law was hard on their tails. “Historians Gerry and Janet Souter take the reader back to a time between 1840 and 1940 when . . . outlaws and man hunters lived bold and died hard . . . [The] book show[s] actual tools of the trade wielded during a violent century, bound up in a mix of hard truths and mythology.” —Ammoland.com |
| hotchkiss m1909: Patton in Mexico Michael Lee Lanning, 2023-11-01 Had Lieutenant George S. Patton not served on the southern border during the Mexican Expedition of 1916, there might never have been a General George S. Patton who took the world by storm as a bold and daring commander during World War II. Relying on Patton’s detailed personal journals of his eight months in Mexico, Michael Lee Lanning describes the young officer’s exploits during the hunt for Pancho Villa. As an aide to General John Pershing, Patton learned leadership and logistics from the man who would soon command American forces in World War I. Begging for a field command, he received it—and led the first motorized attack in U.S. military history and may or may not have killed two of Villa’s lieutenants. The press ate it up, and Patton learned not only how much he loved attention, but how to promote himself. In Mexico are the roots of Patton the World War II general, and Lanning tells the story deftly, focusing on Patton the man as well Patton the commander, and always casting an eye forward to Patton’s future career. This is how Patton became Patton. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Small Arms Rupert Matthews, 2014-10-01 This comprehensive, fully illustrated reference volume covers the evolution of small arms from primitive spears to portable rocket launchers. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Small Arms details more than 1,000 weapons, complete with full-color photographs. Featuring arms from around the world and across history, this stunning guide highlights the intricacies that make each variety unique, tying in historical anecdotes as well as the history of certain brands. Revealing fascinating insights and historical episodes—such as the inspiration for Samuel L. Colt’s revolvers, or the lozenge-case gun used by Italian spies during World War II—this is an ideal resource for historians as well as fire arms enthusiasts. The volume is lushly illustrated with detailed photographs, many of which are published here for the first time. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Liberty or Death Philip Jowett, 2019-08-22 A highly illustrated study of the wars of Central and South America from 1900 through to 1970, featuring many rare and never-before-seen images. From the Banana Wars of the early 20th century through to the Football War of 1969, South and Central America has been a hotbed of revolutions, rebellions and conflicts as diverse as they are numerous. Some were small-scale affairs involving the poorly armed forces of Central American armies with rifles, machetes and a few aged machine guns. Others were full-scale conflicts involving sophisticated armies equipped with tanks, artillery and aircraft, and hundreds of thousands of troops. These wars often went largely unreported in the West, which was preoccupied with its own problems in fighting two world wars and dealing with Cold War tensions. Fully illustrated with a wealth of rare photographs, this fascinating story sheds light on seven decades of a continent in conflict that is rarely covered in English. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Mexican Expedition, 1916-1917 Julie Irene Prieto, 2016 Prieto examines the operation led by General John Pershing to search for, capture, and destroy Francisco Pancho Villa and his revolutionary army in northern Mexico in the year prior to the United States' entry into World War I. This campaign marked one of the final times cavalry was used on a large scale, and it was one of the first to use trucks and airplanes in the field. While Pershing's troops failed to capture Villa, both Regular Army troops and National Guardsmen stationed on the border gained valuable experience in these new technologies. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry Chuck Wills, 2013-08-01 A complete look at weapons—from the Stone Age and Bronze Age to present day—from spears and swords to handguns and automatic weapons. When did hunting weapons begin to be used against humans instead of animals? What is the difference between the Plains Indian War Club and the Fijian War Club? What weapon is common to peoples in every part of the world? The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry is a comprehensive guide to arms and armaments throughout history. Beginning in the Stone Age, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry travels through the Bronze Age to our present day, showing the tools humans have used to defend themselves all around the globe. There’s the Japanese tanto, or dagger, which have become identified with gangs known as yakuza. There’s the flaming arrow used when Swiss and Austrian forces clashed in the 14th century. And there’s the revolver that Samuel Colt made practical for both military and civilian use in Hartford, Connecticut. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry will help readers better understand how—and why—the battles of history were fought. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Ardennes on Fire Timothy J. Thompson M.A., 2010-03-02 At precisely 5:30 AM, Saturday morning, December 16, 1944, the misty calm of the Ardennes Forest was violently shattered by the deafening roar of nearly 85 miles of German guns. From the ancient city of Monschau in the north, all the way down to the resort city of Echternach in the south, the earth shook and the ground trembled for nearly an hour as practically every caliber of shell the Third Reich possessed was hurled at the American lines. This was the opening act of the famous and legendary campaign known to military history as: The Battle Of The Bulge. In volume one of the phenomenal book, The Ardennes On Fire, brilliant author Timothy J. Thompson details the intensive German military buildup in the weeks leading up to the massive attack, and then examines every parameter of day one of Hitler’s greatest military gamble. This book is so riveting, you will never be able to put it down. Mr. Thompson provides the reader with more than 100 outstanding photographs, along with a full and comprehensive index as well. If you want to know how it happened and why it happened, this is the book for you. The Battle of the Bulge was one of the most thrilling campaigns in the history of warfare. Volume one of, The Ardennes On Fire, captures every aspect of it. |
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| hotchkiss m1909: The Great War Illustrated 1918 Jack Holroyd, William Langford, 2018-03-30 A pictorial history of events that occurred during World War I in 1918. The final book in a series of five titles which graphically cover each year of the war. Countless thousands of pictures were taken by photographers on all sides during the First World War. These pictures appeared in the magazines, journals, and newspapers of the time. Some illustrations went on to become part of postwar archives and have appeared, and continue to appear, in present-day publications and TV documentary programs—many did not. The Great War Illustrated series, beginning with the year 1914, includes in its pages many rarely seen images with individual numbers allocated, and subsequently they will be lodged with the Taylor Library Archive for use by editors and authors. While some of the images in The Great War Illustrated 1918 will be familiar, many will be seen for the first time by a new generation interested in the months that changed the world for ever. Praise for The Great War Illustrated 1918 “Add this book to the others in the series and you have the most comprehensive photographic record of WWI.” —The Armourer, Editor's Choice “This has been a fantastic series of books and this last volume has maintained the standard from first to last.” —War History Online |
| hotchkiss m1909: Australia's Palestine Campaign 1916-1918 Jean Bou, 2010-07-01 With nearly two mounted divisions engaged against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East for almost three years the Palestine Campaign was Australia's longest running militarily significant endeavour of the First World War after the Western Front. And yet apart from the battle of Beersheba, the Palestine Campaign receives little attention in Australia compared to Gallipoli and the Western Front. In contrast to the years of grinding trench warfare in France and Belgium, the Palestine Campaign was a war of relative movement and manoeuvre. Cavalry, including Australia's light horse, played a prominent role, but it was a hard fought fully modern war, in which the latest military technologies and techniques were all used. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Titanic Secret Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul, 2020-06-23 When Isaac Bell attempts to decipher the forbidding deaths of nine men, he encounters a secret so powerful it could dictate the fate of the world in this riveting thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring rescue from inside an antiquated submersible in the waters off New York City. His reward afterwards is a document left behind a century earlier by legendary detective Isaac Bell--a document that re-opens a historical mystery... In 1911, in Colorado, Isaac Bell is asked to look into an unexplained tragedy at Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. His dangerous quest to answer the riddle leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium, a rare element with extraordinary powers and of virtually incalculable value. As he discovers that there are people who will do anything to control the substance, Isaac Bell will find out just how far he'll go to stop them. |
| hotchkiss m1909: The Balkans 1940–41 (1) Pier Paolo Battistelli, 2021-01-21 The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940, when the Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'). In the wake of Italy's rapid annexation of Albania in April 1940, Mussolini's decision to attack Greece in October that year is widely acknowledged as a fatal mistake, leading to a domestic crisis and to the collapse of Italy's reputation as a military power (re-emphasized by the Italian defeat in North Africa in December 1940). The Italian assault on Greece came to a stalemate in less than a fortnight, and was followed a week later by a Greek counter-offensive that broke through the Italian defences before advancing into Albania, forcing the Italian forces to withdraw north before grinding to a half in January 1941 due to logistical issues. Eventually, the Italians took advantage of this brief hiatus to reorganize and prepare a counteroffensive, the failure of which marked the end of the first stage of the Axis Balkan campaign. This book offers a detailed overview of the Italian and Greek armies, their fighting power, and the terrain in which they fought. Complemented by rarely seen images and full colour illustrations, it shows how expectations of an easy Italian victory quickly turned into one of Mussolini's greatest blunders. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Patton Fernando del Castillo Durán, 2025-05-26 George S. Patton fue un líder militar sobresaliente y una figura extraordinariamente polémica que transformó en buena medida la guerra moderna. Estratega brillante, su genio táctico y su audacia fueron decisivos para la victoria aliada en el frente occidental durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Desde el norte de África hasta el corazón del Reich, sus campañas al mando del III Ejército estadounidense se convirtieron en lecciones magistrales de velocidad, maniobra y operatividad. Fernando del Castillo recorre exhaustivamente su trayectoria militar completa: desde sus años formativos en West Point y su primera experiencia de combate en México, hasta su papel pionero al frente de las primeras unidades de tanques estadounidenses en la Gran Guerra. El autor examina también el crucial período de entreguerras, donde Patton desarrolló sus revolucionarias teorías sobre la guerra mecanizada que más tarde pondría en práctica con devastadora efectividad. EL GENERAL QUE REZABA POR LA VICTORIA Y ESCRIBÍA POESÍA SOBRE LA GUERRA. Más allá del estratega militar, emergen aspectos sorprendentes y poco conocidos: su participación en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1912, el diseño de una espada que llevó su nombre y fue adoptada por el ejército estadounidense, su faceta como poeta y su peculiar relación con la divinidad. Una personalidad compleja capaz de aunar la brutalidad de la guerra con una notable sensibilidad literaria y un inusual conocimiento de los clásicos. Descubrimos al hombre detrás del mito: un general en quien convivían una profunda religiosidad con un lenguaje soez y se daba la mano cierta erudición clásica con un estilo de mando directo, junto con una inquebrantable confianza en sí mismo en momentos de duda íntima. A través de documentos inéditos, testimonios directos y su propio diario, se dibuja un retrato certero, diferente al habitual que presentan los estudiosos anglosajones, de uno de los comandantes más carismáticos y efectivos de la historia militar contemporánea. |
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| hotchkiss m1909: Wacht Am Rhein Timothy J. Thompson M.A., 2008-09-17 At 5:30 AM, Saturday morning, December 16, 1944, more than 286,000 German soldiers, supported by 970 tanks and assault guns, and augmented by 1,900 artillery pieces, ferociously assaulted a small number of resting and recuperating American divisions along an 85 mile front of the Ardennes Forest in Southern Belgium. The resulting campaign would be one of the most dynamic, spectacular and brutal ever fought in the history of warfare. The Americans would forever refer to it as: The Battle Of The Bulge. The Germans called it: The Great Ardennes Counter Offensive. In order to launch such an audacious attach in the first place, Nazi Germany had to draw upon every available means and resource they had left. And, they did. Beginning in the second week of September 1944, manpower, weapons, and supplies from all over the Reich were gathered up and secretly massed together in the Eifel, just opposite the Ardennes. Considering the tremendous shellacking the Germans had taken throughout the summer of 1944, this was nothing less than a feat of astronomical proportions. In the Book, Wacht Am Rhein, author Timothy J. Thompson, describes in detail exactly how this entire process unfolded. He takes the reader through Hitlers stunning announcement in the Wolfs Lair on September 16, all the way up through the final preparations for the great attack. It is spell-binding and spine tingling. There are 50 excellent photographs for the readers enjoyment, along with a full and comprehensive index that makes it quite easy to locate little bits of information at the drop of a hat. It is a book that you wont be able to put down. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Armies of the Italian-Turkish War Gabriele Esposito, 2020-09-17 In the early 1900s, the decaying Ottoman Turkish Empire had lost some of its Balkan territories, but still nominally ruled all of North Africa between British Egypt in the east and French Algeria in the west. Libya had fertile coastal territory, and was the last North African (almost, the last African) region not yet conquered by a European colonialist power. Italy was a young country, ambitious for colonies, but had been defeated in Ethiopia in the 1890s. The Italian government of Giovanni Giolitti was keen to overwrite the memory of that failure, and to gain a strategic grip over the central Mediterranean by seizing Libya, just across the narrows from Sicily. The Italian expeditionary force that landed in October 1911 easily defeated the Ottoman division based in the coastal cities, incurring few losses. However, the Libyan inland tribes reacted furiously to the Italian conquest, and their insurgency cost the Italians thousands of casualties, locking them into the coastal enclaves during a winter stalemate which diminished Italian public enthusiasm for the war. To retrieve Italian prestige the government launched a naval campaign in the Dardanelles and the Dodecanese – the last Turkish held archipelago in the Aegean – in April–May 1912, and landed troops to capture Rhodes. The army finally pushed inland in Libya in July– October (using systematic air reconnaissance, for the first time), and after brutal fighting the war ended in a treaty that brought Italy all it wanted, although though the Libyan tribes would not finally be quelled until after World War I. Containing accurate full-colour artwork and unrivalled detail, Armies of the Italian-Turkish War offers a vivid insight into the troops involved in this pivotal campaign, including the tribal insurgents and the navies of both sides. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Deutschland und Großbritannien in der Luft Charles River Editors,, 2025-04-28 Einer der wichtigsten militärtechnischen Durchbrüche des Ersten Weltkriegs - und sicherlich derjenige, der die Phantasie der Öffentlichkeit nach wie vor beflügelt - war der Einsatz von Flugzeugen, die ein Jahrzehnt zuvor noch eine absolute Neuheit waren. Während der Krieg in den ersten Monaten schnell zum Stillstand kam, herrschte am Himmel über der Westfront ein reges Treiben. Die Großmächte hatten bereits Flugzeuge angeschafft, um sie einsetzen zu können, aber da der Luftkrieg noch nie ein wichtiger Bestandteil eines Konflikts gewesen war, ist es verständlich, dass nur wenige auf beiden Seiten eine Vorstellung davon hatten, wozu die Flugzeuge in der Lage waren. Außerdem waren zu Beginn des Krieges die Flugzeuge aller Seiten schlecht für den Kampf gerüstet, vor allem weil die Idee, dass Flugzeuge irgendwie kämpfen könnten, noch neu war und die Anpassungen, die spätere Luftkämpfe ermöglichen sollten, noch nicht entwickelt worden waren. Infolgedessen wurden Flugzeuge schon früh fast ausschließlich zur Aufklärung eingesetzt, wodurch die Generäle ein noch nie dagewesenes Maß an Informationen über feindliche Bewegungen gewinnen konnten. Diese Informationen ermöglichten es den Franzosen, die deutschen Bewegungen in der Ersten Marneschlacht zu kontern und die deutschen Hoffnungen auf einen Sieg durch den Schlieffenplan zu beenden. Auch im Osten waren deutsche Flugzeuge von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Verfolgung, Einkreisung und Vernichtung der russischen Truppen bei Tannenberg. Einige Armeen, wie z. B. die Franzosen, betrachteten die Aufklärung aus der Luft als eine strategische Angelegenheit, wobei die Flugzeuge vor allem in der Lage waren, die feindlichen Kräfte vor der Schlacht zu identifizieren und zu den Vorbereitungen beizutragen. Die Deutschen hingegen glaubten, dass Flugzeuge taktische Informationen liefern könnten, sobald die Schlacht begonnen hatte. Piloten wie Oswald Boelcke, der erste große deutsche Fliegeroffizier, überflogen in zweisitzigen Flugzeugen mit einem Beobachter im Heck feindliche Stellungen, identifizierten alliierte Stellungen und lenkten mit Hilfe von Farblichtern das Feuer der Artillerie am Boden. Mit der zunehmenden Reichweite und Schlagkraft der Artillerie gewann die Zielerfassung natürlich an Bedeutung. Ein Großteil des Feuers der großen Geschütze wurde indirekt abgefeuert, da die Kanoniere ihre Ziele nicht sehen konnten und daher auf Informationen anderer angewiesen waren, um sie zu lenken. Die Karten der vom Feind gehaltenen Gebiete waren anfangs oft völlig unzureichend, und da man wissen musste, wo sich die feindlichen Verbände bewegten, wurde die Angelegenheit noch komplizierter, aber die Flugzeuge konnten hier Abhilfe schaffen, indem sie aktuelle Informationen über die feindlichen Stellungen lieferten und an die Geschützbatterien weiterleiteten, die ihre eigenen Frontlinien mit Granaten beschossen. Die Royal Air Force (RAF), Großbritanniens legendäre Luftwaffe, wurde im Himmel über dem Ersten Weltkrieg geboren. Zuvor hatten die Briten jahrzehntelang Ballons zur Beobachtung und Aufklärung eingesetzt, und in den Jahren vor dem Krieg wurden Flugzeuge erstmals militärisch genutzt. Sie dienten vor allem der Aufklärung, doch es wurden auch Versuche unternommen, sie offensiv einzusetzen. Während des Burenkrieges 1899-1902 setzte die britische Armee die Besatzungen von mit Helium gefüllten Ballons ein, um den Artilleriebeschuss zu planen und zu unterstützen. Dies waren jedoch nur kleine, zaghafte Schritte. Das erste Patent für den Einbau eines Maschinengewehrs in ein Flugzeug, das 1910 angemeldet wurde, hatte noch nicht zu aktiven Kampffahrzeugen geführt, und es gab keine Doktrin, keine Taktik und keinen Kampf zwischen großen Luftflotten. Das änderte sich im Ersten Weltkrieg, als der Himmel über der Westfront zum Schmelztiegel wurde, in dem die vorangegangenen Fragmente der Luftkriegsführung in der weißen Hitze des Krieges geschmolzen wurden. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Танки, бронемашины, боевые самолеты, беспилотники Вячеслав Ликсо, 2024-05-08 В этой увлекательной прекрасно иллюстрированной энциклопедии наглядно представлены все основные виды вооружений, созданные людьми за последнее столетие: ствольная и буксируемая артиллерия, самоходные артиллерийские и ракетные установки, танки и бронетехника, военные летательные аппараты, боевые корабли и подводные лодки. Красочные иллюстрации, а в книге их около 700, выполнены художниками, которые специализируются на изображении современной и исторической военной техники, а это значит, что от их профессионального взгляда не ускользнет ни одна, даже мельчайшая, конструктивная особенность, а раскраска боевых машин и опознавательные знаки на них будут в точности соответствовать реальным прототипам. Кроме того, многие военные машины представлены на фотографиях, которые по определению имеют полную историческую достоверность, причем некоторые из них запечатлены прямо во время боевых действий, а другие, завершившие службу, – в музейных экспозициях. Узлы и агрегаты, отличающие конкретную модель от других боевых единиц того же класса, обозначены на рисунках и подписаны в соответствии с их предназначением. Весь этот насыщенный визуальный ряд дает возможность проследить эволюцию военных машин и многое узнать об истории их зарождения и становления, а глоссарий и предметный указатель помогут сориентироваться во всем многообразии боевой техники.Для среднего и старшего школьного возраста. |
| hotchkiss m1909: Maschinen- Gewehr 08/15 Jürgen Prommersberger, 2022-07-03 MASCHINENGEWEHR 08/15 Die bekannteste Infanteriewaffe des 1. Weltkriegs Das leichte MG 08/15 war ein leichtes deutsches Maschinengewehr des Ersten Weltkriegs. Es entstand 1915 als Weiterentwicklung des schweren MGs 08. Die Redewendung „nullachtfünfzehn“ geht auf das MG 08/15 zurück. Ab dem Jahr 1915 wurde auf Basis des MG 08 die Variante 08/15 entwickelt. Ab Sommer 1917 wurde die als leichtes MG 08/15 bezeichnete Waffe an die Truppe ausgegeben. Durch die Modifikationen sollte das aufwändige und langsame Nachführen der MG-Truppen bei Sturmangriffen vermieden werden. Daher wurde das Maschinengewehr nun als leichtes Maschinengewehr mit Zweibein und Schulterstütze ausgeführt. Dieses Buch schildert die Entwicklung und Einsätze dieser außergewöhnlichen Waffe. Darin wird auch die Entwicklungsgeschichte der (deutschen) Maschinenwaffen bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs beschrieben. Umfangreiches Bildmaterial und technische Beschreibungen ergänzen dieses Werk. Umfang: 35 Seiten |
| hotchkiss m1909: Deutsche Maschinengewehre 1900 - 1945 Rainer Smolcic, 2024-07-12 DEUTSCHE MASCHINENGEWEHRE 1900 – 1945 Ein Maschinengewehr (kurz MG) ist eine vollautomatische Schusswaffe für das Verschießen von Gewehrmunition. Maschinengewehre feuern bei Betätigung des Abzugs so lange Projektile ab, bis der Abzug wieder gelöst, die Munitionszufuhr unterbrochen wird oder eine Störung auftritt. Der Mechanismus des automatischen Ladens wird entweder durch den Gasdruck der sich entspannenden Pulvergase, durch die Rückstoßkraft oder durch einen externen Antrieb wie zum Beispiel einen Elektromotor betätigt. In diesem Buch stelle ich die deutschen Maschinengewehre von den Anfängen im Kaiserreich bis zu den Waffen, die in der deutschen Wehrmacht bis 1945 in Gebrauch waren vor. Insbesondere werden die Baureihen 08 und 08/15, sowie das MG 34 und das MG 42 detaillierter beschrieben. Zeitgenössische Bilder ergänzen dieses Werk. |
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