{"id":6956,"date":"2013-03-20T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/20\/book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land-by-dolf-goldsmith\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:31:06","slug":"book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land-by-dolf-goldsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/20\/book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land-by-dolf-goldsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Grand Old Lady of No Man&#8217;s Land, by Dolf Goldsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sSKPihx3bFg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I got an email from a fellow a few days ago asking if there is a good book out there on the Vickers gun, so I figured it would be a good time to do a review of Dolf Goldsmith&#8217;s gold standard work, The Grand Old Lady of No Man&#8217;s Land. The good news is that it covers pretty much everything you would want to know about the Vickers in all its iterations&#8230;the bad news is that it&#8217;s very difficult to find these days. Any price under $200 is very good, and worth buying at. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an email from a fellow a few days ago asking if there is a good book out there on the Vickers gun, so I figured it would be a good time to do a review of Dolf Goldsmith&#8217;s gold standard work, The Grand Old Lady of No Man&#8217;s Land. The good news is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/20\/book-review-the-grand-old-lady-of-no-mans-land-by-dolf-goldsmith\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: The Grand Old Lady of No Man&#8217;s Land, by Dolf Goldsmith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6957,"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-6956","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\/6956","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=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/7517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}