{"id":22547,"date":"2014-01-02T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/book-review-the-m1-garand-rifle-by-bruce-canfield\/"},"modified":"2014-01-02T07:00:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T13:00:04","slug":"book-review-the-m1-garand-rifle-by-bruce-canfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/book-review-the-m1-garand-rifle-by-bruce-canfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The M1 Garand Rifle by Bruce Canfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Rg6pbPtrIU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have been procrastinating the addition of a good book on the M1 Garand rifle into my own library, reading the various published material off of friends&#8217; shelves. Now I&#8217;m glad that I have put off the purchase, because hot off the presses is a new tome by Bruce Canfield, a 900-page encyclopedia on the Garand rifle. And not just the M1, but all the developmental iterations (primer-actuated, .276, gas trap, etc) and all the post-war experimental modifications (E-series, T-series, and more) that led to the M14.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike many reference books that tend to focus on either collector&#8217;s minutia or developmental history or firsthand account of field use, Canfield&#8217;s new book does a great job of covering all the bases. In it you&#8217;ll find plenty of firsthand reports of M1 use in all sorts of environments, a great in-depth history of the self-loading rifle trials of the 1920s, detailed assessments of the M1&#8217;s primary competitors, and also comparative descriptions of all the different production variants of each individual part of the rifle. Really, it&#8217;s a one-stop-shop for information on this iconic rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been procrastinating the addition of a good book on the M1 Garand rifle into my own library, reading the various published material off of friends&#8217; shelves. Now I&#8217;m glad that I have put off the purchase, because hot off the presses is a new tome by Bruce Canfield, a 900-page encyclopedia on the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/book-review-the-m1-garand-rifle-by-bruce-canfield\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: The M1 Garand Rifle by Bruce Canfield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}