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ISBN: 1982129239 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Scribner,
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"The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and found an important place in American culture. 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 crucial 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 introduces a little-known American legend whose impact on history ranks with that of the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford"--
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Browning (john moses), 1855-1926 --- Armes a feu --- Biographie
ISBN: 0486266958 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Dover Publications, Inc.
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Music --- pianisten --- Browning, John --- Badura-Skoda, Paul --- Dichter, Misha --- Kraus, Lili --- Bolet, Jorge --- Egorov, Youri --- Kocsis, Zoltan --- Ohlsson, Garrick --- Perahia, Murray --- Pogorelich, Ivo --- Janis, Byron --- Gould, Glenn --- Horowitz, Vladimir --- Arrau, Claudio --- Brendel, Alfred --- Fleisher, Leon --- Ashkenazy, Vladimir --- Gilels, Emil
ISBN: 0585326894 9780585326894 0929398769 9780929398761 Year: 1994 Volume: no. 3 Publisher: Denton, Tex. University of North Texas Press
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John Gaitha Browning was a 30-year-old artist when he joined the Army, and he did not cease to be an artist just because he had become a soldier. The extraordinary journal he kept during his two years in the South Pacific records the plight of any artist at war: "We are a lonely lot who ignore so many things and dream of a day when we will be free to create beauty again." Browning also brought to Army life his many years of experience (some while a Boy Scout) working among Native Americans, learning their lore and handiwork. Many entries in this journal are fascinating comparisons between them and the New Guinea and Philippine natives. Although his love of art and culture sometimes left him at odds with the youngest soldiers, he was determined to make a written and visual record of whatever "good and beautiful" he found amidst the confusion and destruction of war. The journals begin on February 6, 1943 in Fort Ord, California; cover Browning's journey to Australia aboard the U.S. Army Transport Willard A. Holbrook; his adventures in Brisbane and Cairns, and then New Guinea; and his combat experience in the Philippines during the spring and summer of 1945.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Soldiers --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Campaigns --- Personal narratives, American. --- Diaries. --- Personal narratives, American --- Diaries --- Browning, John Gaitha, --- Browning, Gaitha, --- United States. --- U.S. Army --- US Army
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