Featuring full-color artwork, expert analysis, and gripping first-hand accounts, the absorbing story of this critically important battlefield weapon, covering its origins, development, use, and abiding legacy.
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Gordon L. Rottman entered the US Army in 1967, volunteered for Special Forces and completed training as a weapons specialist. He served in the 5th Special Forces Group in Vietnam in 1969-70 and subsequently in airborne infantry, long-range patrol and intelligence assignments before retiring after 26 years. He was a Special Operations Forces scenario writer at the Joint Readiness Training Center for 12 years and is now a freelance writer, living in Texas.
Johnny Shumate works as a freelance illustrator living in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career in 1987 after graduating from Austin Peay State University. Most of his work is rendered in Adobe Photoshop using a Cintiq monitor. His greatest influences are Angus McBride, Don Troiani, and Édouard Detaille.
Alan Gilliland, a contributor to more than 70 Osprey titles, notably in the Weapon series, writes, illustrates and publishes fiction (www.ravensquill.com), as well as illustrating for a variety of publishers (alangillilandillustration.blogspot.com).
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan (illustrator). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Artikel-Nr. GOR009313397
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Zustand: New. Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan (illustrator). Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and an array of revealing photographs of grenades in use and in close-up, this book explores and assesses the origins, development, combat use, and lasting legacy of the formidable military hand grenade. Illustrator(s): Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan. Series: Weapon. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JWM; TTMW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 249 x 8. Weight in Grams: 264. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9781472807342
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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan (illustrator). Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and an array of revealing photographs of grenades in use and in close-up, this book explores and assesses the origins, development, combat use, and lasting legacy of the formidable military hand grenade. Artikel-Nr. 595988892
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan (illustrator). Neuware - The Hand Grenade is the dramatic story, covering its origins, development, use - in the World Wars and into the present day - and lasting influence on close-quarter combat and infantry tactics.Allowing the user to inflict damage on his opponent within throwing range without leaving cover, the portable, lethally efficient hand grenade is a ubiquitous weapon of modern warfare, and has now found its way into law-enforcement arsenals too. In this engaging study the origins, development, combat use and lasting legacy of the military hand grenade are explored and assessed, accompanied by specially commissioned full-color artwork and an array of revealing photographs of grenades in use and in close-up. Artikel-Nr. 9781472807342
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Shumate, Johnny; Gilliland, Alan (illustrator). The Hand Grenade | Gordon L. Rottman | Taschenbuch | Weapon | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2015 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | EAN 9781472807342 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Artikel-Nr. 105311972
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