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Title: Book of the Garand by Julian S. Hatcher ISBN: 0-88227-014-1 Publisher: Rutgers Book Center Pub. Date: June, 1983 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Book
Comment: Any modern day gun-bug reading Julian S. Hatcher's resume can hardly help but drool. This dude lived during what had to have been the golden age of military small arms development, and seemed to always land a job involving some fascinating aspect of the rapidly advancing technology. No wonder he stayed in the military so long. I can't think of any modern writer that even comes close to the experience and technical background he had.
This book gives very complete information about the development, functioning, and use of the Garand rifle up to the end of World War 2. Of course there were more changes made to the gun around the Korean War and even up through the 1960's that Hatcher could not foresee, but those would mainly be of interest to the more meticulous collector types anyway. Hatcher gives an insider's account of the long struggle to find a good semi-automatic rifle, and touches on many other interesting designs that were cast aside along the way.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the book about "The greatest battle implement ever."
Comment: As a former reviewer said, "If you have a Garand, this book is a must."
Major General Julian S. Hatcher is not just another author writing about just another rifle. He is talking about the rifle designed by John C. Garand (pronounced with a hard 'g', as in 'go,' with the accent on the first syllable, to rhyme with parent.) The rifle's name, however, is usually pronounced 'guh-RAND' by the men who used it.
And General Hatcher was in on the development of the famous old (WWII and Korea) rifle from the beginning.
This is the rifle to which General George S. Patton referred, when he said, "The greatest battle implement ever devised by man!"
During the Second World War, the United States Army and the U.S. Marines (except in the very beginning, in the Philippines) were equipped with this rifle, and thus were the only combatants on either side equipped with a semi-automatic main battle rifle. With it, they could fire eight rounds of .30-'06 ammunition as fast as they could pull the trigger. When the ammunition in the clip was exhausted, the clip popped clear with a 'tinny' sound, and they simply shoved another in, and kept firing.
For a time, their enemies though they were all equipped with machine guns. And, the rifle was accurate and rugged. It would take punishment, and keep right on shooting.
Everything you could conceivably need to know about the "U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1" is in this book: the history of its development and trials, general description, the sights, the operation, care and cleaning, disassembly and assembly, malfunctions and stoppages, ammunition, its use in World War Two, its use as a match rifle, and detailed photographs and drawings of its component parts.
I own one. I earned the right to buy a Garand from the givernment by competing in a sanctioned rifle match, going through an FBI investigation and clearance, and filling out a bunch of government paperwork. Then I purchased it from the Department of Civilian Marksmanship, and the postman delivered it to my door.
Before I got it, I bought this book.
You can get one too, the same way I did, from the Civilian Marksmanship Program (a government program, run by civilians, out of Port Clinton, Ohio.) See your local gun club for details.
Joseph Pierre,
Author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
Rating: 5
Summary: THE bible for the M1 Garand
Comment: If there is anything in the world you want to know about the M1 Garand, this is the book. If you have a Garand, this book is a must.
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Title: Hatcher's Notebook by Julian S. Hatcher ISBN: 0811707954 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: December, 1962 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Complete Guide to the M1 Garand and the M1 Carbine by Bruce N. Canfield ISBN: 0917218833 Publisher: Andrew Mowbray Inc., Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The M1 Garand, 1936-1957, 3rd Edition by Joe Poyer, Craig Riesch, Joe Poyer, Lee A. Rutledge ISBN: 1882391195 Publisher: North Cape Publications Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Complete M1 Garand by Jim Thompson ISBN: 0873649842 Publisher: Paladin Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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