Osprey: Hotchkiss Machine Guns [2019] paperback PAREN The Imp Of The Perverse

The Imp Of The Perverse

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Osprey: Hotchkiss Machine Guns [2019] paperback PAREN The Imp Of The PerverseCreated 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 would be overshadowed by the water cooled Maxim and Vickers Guns, it proved its effectiveness during the Russo Japanese War. The gun, quirky though it was, was successful enough to persuade Laurence Benet and Henri Mercie to