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Dan Snow Tests One Of The World's First Machine Guns

In this video, Dan Snow joins British firearm historian Jonathan Ferguson to test fire a Vickers Machine Gun from the First ...
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Read this heart-wrenching diary of a WW1 soldier in real time

LONDON -- On Jan. 1, 1917, a young man from Lancashire started a diary. It might not sound like much to write home about, but the 21-year-old -- Lawrence Enderson Grimshaw -- happened to be a soldier ...