Tommy Gun Winter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tommy Gun Winter write by Nathan Gorenstein. This book was released on 2015-04-07. Tommy Gun Winter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the true tale of two brothers, sons of a successful Jewish contractor, who along with an MIT graduate and a minister's daughter once competed for headlines with John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde. The gang was led by the angry, violent, yet often charismatic Murton Millen, a small-time hoodlum and aspiring race-car driver. With his younger brother, Irv, and later joined by neighborhood buddy and MIT graduate Abe Faber, Murt launched a career of increasingly ambitious robberies. But it was only after his sudden marriage to the beautiful eighteen-year-old Norma Brighton that the gang escalated to murder. Their crime wave climaxed at a Needham, Massachusetts, bank on February 2, 1934, when Murt cut down two local police officers - Francis Haddock and Forbes McLeod - with a Thompson submachine gun stolen from state police. The killings, the dogged investigation by two clever detectives, and the record-setting trial with seventeen psychiatrists were national news. In Depression-era America this Boston saga of sex, ethnicity, and bloodshed made the trio and their "red-headed gun moll" infamous. Gorenstein's account explores the Millen, Faber, and Brighton families and introduces us to cops, psychiatrists, newspaper men and women, and ordinary citizens caught up in the extraordinary Tommy Gun Winter of 1934.
Tommy
Tommy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tommy write by Karen Blumenthal. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Tommy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds—but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade—and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time—Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control. Critically-acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal tells the fascinating story of this famous and deadly weapon—of the lives it changed, the debate it sparked, and the unprecedented response it inspired.
The Guns of John Moses Browning
The Guns of John Moses Browning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Guns of John Moses Browning write by Nathan Gorenstein. This book was released on 2022-05-17. The Guns of John Moses Browning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in world history. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning—a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West—was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict. He invented the design used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns that proved decisive not just in World Wars I and II but nearly every major military action since. Yet few in America knew his name until he was into his sixties. Now, author Nathan Gorenstein brings firearms inventor John Moses Browning to vivid life in this riveting and revealing biography. Embodying the tradition of self-made, self-educated geniuses (like Lincoln and Edison), Browning was able to think in three dimensions (he never used blueprints) and his gifted mind produced everything from the famous Winchester “30-30” hunting rifle to the awesomely effective machine guns used by every American aircraft and infantry unit in World War II. The British credited Browning’s guns with helping to win the Battle of Britain. His inventions illustrate both the good and bad of weapons. Sweeping, lively, and brilliantly told, this fascinating book that “gun collectors and historians of armaments will cherish” (Kirkus Reviews) introduces a little-known legend whose impact on history ranks with that of the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
Probable Cause
Probable Cause - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Probable Cause write by LeRoy Panek. This book was released on 1990. Probable Cause available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American crime fiction has developed into writing that has a commitment to democracy and the democratic way of life, a compassion and empathy and a style which has created a significant branch of American literature.
The Winter Men
The Winter Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Winter Men write by Brett Lewis. This book was released on 2009. The Winter Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kris Kalenov left the Russian army and his old unit behind, or so he thought. Now the Winter Men want Kris back to find a missing girl who also happens to be a stolen weapon.
