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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace - British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace - British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the
spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.
Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel
through with the round is fired. Instead, the general concept
involves a steel rod - the 'spigot' - onto which the bomb is placed
before it is fired. This design was, as David Lister reveals, the
basis of a number of successful weapons used during the Second
World War. The myth of the PIAT man-portable anti-tank weapon is,
for example, tied closely to British paratroopers struggling in the
ruins of Arnhem with an inadequate design, one inferior to the
German equivalent. Similarly, the myth of the Blacker Bombard is of
a useless weapon, one of dubious quality, that was dumped on the
unsuspecting Home Guard. In reality, neither scenario is the case.
Both weapons were devastating creations of war, often superior to
any other nation's counterpart. At sea, the Hedgehog anti-submarine
weapon was another powerful spigot weapon. It was undoubtedly
capable of sweeping the U-boats from the sea and even winning the
Battle of the Atlantic before it had really begun. That it did not
is one of the great scandals of the Second World War, one hidden by
wartime secrecy until now. In _Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace_
the author explores a large number of spigot weapons from the
Second World War, many of which were created by the fertile mind of
one of Britain's great weapon inventors, Latham Valentine Stewart
Blacker.
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