{"id":5324,"date":"2015-03-28T01:24:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T01:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/28\/book-review-great-britain-the-tommy-gun-story\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:17:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:17:41","slug":"book-review-great-britain-the-tommy-gun-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/28\/book-review-great-britain-the-tommy-gun-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Great Britain &#8211; The Tommy Gun Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GlnHmvpZMpw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5070216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5070216<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently got a copy of Tom Davis Jr&#8217;s brand new book on the history of British use of the Thompson SMG. This is very much a history book rather than a technical book, and it is based on meticulously researched documents from the British national archives, right down to the hand-written notes scribbled on telegrams and tally books. If you are interested in the United Kingdom&#8217;s effort to supply arms during the first half of WWII or in the history of the Thompson in general, it is definitely a work to add to your reference library.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.createspace.com\/5070216 I recently got a copy of Tom Davis Jr&#8217;s brand new book on the history of British use of the Thompson SMG. This is very much a history book rather than a technical book, and it is based on meticulously researched documents from the British national archives, right down to the hand-written notes scribbled&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/28\/book-review-great-britain-the-tommy-gun-story\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Great Britain &#8211; The Tommy Gun Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5325,"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":[61,89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324","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=5324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5324\/revisions\/7513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}