The Suomi KP/-31 was one of the lesser-known and yet most influential submachine guns of the Second World War. It was the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: This German gun had a number of disadvantages on the Eastern Front of World War II. The iconic MP 40 was a German submachine... Here’s What You Need to Know: It was an ...

Tom Hanks famously depicted Captain John Miller in “Saving Private Ryan” toting his trusty Thompson submachine gun — “Tommy gun” — from the beaches of Normandy far into the interior of France in 1944.

Picture the scene. It is the Eastern Front in 1943 and you are a German soldier on the frontline. In the distance, you can see and hear a line of T-34 tanks trundling and clacking towards your ...