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    The Flamethrower

    By Chris McNab, Steve Noon and Alan Gilliland

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    The focus of this book is a weapon that has literally placed the power of fire in human hands – the man-portable flamethrower. This formidable weapon first saw battlefield use in the hands of German troops during World War I, and went on to arm the forces of many countries in World War II and beyond. Capable of inflicting horrific injuries – or of using up the oxygen supply inside a building, causing the occupants to suffocate – it projected a stream of flammable liquid, which could be 'bounced' off the interior surfaces of tunnels, buildings and other defended structures to reach deep inside a fortification.

    From its combat debut to its deployment in Vietnam, Chechnya and elsewhere, the flamethrower has proven to be devastatingly effective, not least because of its huge psychological impact on enemy troops. Yet despite this, the weapon and its operators have always been vulnerable, suffering from a very particular set of limitations, all of which are explored here. Featuring expert analysis, first-hand accounts and a startling array of illustrations and photographs, this is the definitive guide to an extraordinary chapter in the history of military technology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 20, 2015
    ISBN9781472809049
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    Chris McNab

    Chris McNab is an author and editor specializing in military history and military technology. To date he has published more than 40 books, including A History of the World in 100 Weapons (2011), Deadly Force (2009) and Tools of Violence (2008). He is the contributing editor of Hitler's Armies: A History of the German War Machine 1939–45 (2011) and Armies of the Napoleonic Wars (2009). Chris has also written extensively for major encyclopedia series, magazines and newspapers, and he lives in South Wales, UK.

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    • 5/5
      Fascinating book about a type of weapon system that is seemingly obsolete. It shattered a few of the myths I believed in such as the lethality of the system to its operators. It turned out it was due to hitting the pressure tanks then blowing up, more than the fuel being hit and self-immolating the operator. Who’d a thunk, right? The book did only rapidly gloss over the dual use as a riot agent dispenser which I think leaves out the nuance of the system that is overlooked at least in later us models.