Breaking Through Barbed Wire Entanglements with the Wire Shooter Cutter, Where Does the Malaria Germ Winter?, Danger in Filtering Gasoline
[Cover image details the invention and use of the "wire shooter," designed for attachment to the bayonet of a standard military rifle]
[Reviewer's note, 2014: Cover image shows a man lifting three thin strands of barbed wire--it looks like the kind of barbed wire used for cattle ranches and bears no relation to the thick coils of wire used in trench warfare]
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