Documents the life of the inventor of the Gatling gun--the first machine gun--and the impact of his invention on the expansion of the United States as a superpower and the international boom of the arms industry.
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Documents the machine gun's role in history with a chronicle of how it was used as a key weapon in protecting America's interests overseas, in an account that also profiles the contributions of its inventor, who developed the machine gun in the hopes of reducing military headcount and casualties. 30,000 first printing.
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