German Machine Guns of World War I: MG 08 and MG 08/15 Art By Jasmine A Stirling

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German Machine Guns of World War I: MG 08 and MG 08/15 Art By Jasmine A StirlingDescription By Stephen Bull Paperback 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, while its more mobile successor, the MG 08 15, played a central role in the revolutionary developments in infantry tactics that characterized the last months of the conflict. Even in the 1940s, the two weapons would be pressed into service with German forces fighting in a