Tommy
The Gun That Changed America
John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds-but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade-and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time-Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control. Critically-acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal tells the fas…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62672-085-5
- EAN: 9781626720855
- Produktnummer: 22467216
- Verlag: Roaring Brook Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 14'565 KB
- Abbildungen: Black and white photographs throughout
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 18 J.
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Karen Blumenthal
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