During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured...
The author gives equally good treatment to the other types of German midget subs, explosive boats and frogmen of the K-verband naval units. This book is recommended by the specialists in WW 2 history as a good introduction to the history of the...