Hotchkiss Machine Guns: From Verdun to Iwo Jima

by John A. Walter

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472836162
• ISBN13: 9781472836168
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 9.5"