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German Machine Guns of World War I - MG 08 and MG 08/15 (Paperback)
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German Machine Guns of World War I - MG 08 and MG 08/15 (Paperback)
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World War I's defining weapon for many, Germany's MG 08 machine gun
won a formidable reputation on battlefields from Tannenberg to the
Somme. Although it was a lethally effective weapon when used from
static positions, the MG 08 was far too heavy to perform a mobile
role on the battlefield. As the British and French began to deploy
lighter machine guns alongside their heavier weapons, the Germans
fielded the Danish Madsen and British Lewis as stopgaps, but chose
to adapt the MG 08 into a compromise weapon - the MG 08/15 - which
would play a central role in the revolutionary developments in
infantry tactics that characterized the last months of the
conflict. In the 1940s, the two weapons were still in service with
German forces fighting in a new world war. Drawing upon eyewitness
battlefield reports, this absorbing study assesses the technical
performance and combat record of these redoubtable and influential
German machine guns, and their strengths and limitations in a
variety of battlefield roles.
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