Today we take a look at Iain McCallum’s Blood Brothers: Hiram and Hudson Maxim: Pioneers of Modern Warfare
Pick up a copy today through Amazon, and discover the whole story behind one of history’s great firearms inventors!
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Vintage Saturday: Russian 1910 Maxim
Ah, the Sokolov mount. Designed, I have no doubt, when the leading medical studies urged you to lift with your back instead of your legs.
Heavy MGs
Vintage Saturday: Desperation
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Maxim Silencer: It Will Pay You to Know About it!
It may have been his father’s total deafness from years of demonstrating the Maxim Gun that led Hiram Percy Maxim to develop the first successful rifle suppressor, or maybe firearms were was just in his […]
This book is a great addition to the library adding some interesting perspective on the lives of both Hiram and Hudson Maxim. It happens that I’m in the middle of this book as you post about it. Hiram’s “My Life” and Mottelay’s work “The Life and Work of Sir Hiram S. Maxim” are also fun to read.
In ‘My Life’, Hiram’s narrative style is interesting in its own right. I imagine he would have been vastly entertaining to listen to over a few drinks with the ‘Little Gun’ occupying a corner of the room.
Regards,
Joe
Surely you mean “just one,” right?
Otherwise, a very interesting book you seem to have there.
I just ran across your website today. Fantastic info! An old book I didn’t see in your list is “The Machine Gun” by Chin. Your discussion of the Maxim book reminded me of it. I found a free electronic PDF file for my Kindle. It is a fantastic reference the covers far more than the title implies discussing weapons development from the spear all the way to the modern aircraft-mounted rotary cannon.
Keep up the good work – I will be visiting often!!!
Was wondering if there was a connection. It seems as though the Maxims
tended to settle together in groups. I am from Wareham, MA, and there
were several Maxim families in that town.
It took me quite the while to figure out Ian didn’t actually wrote this book…