Should Have Read the Book

Grenade as Hammer

The London Sunday Telegraph recently published:

'The risks of DIY are numerous but none so great as that faced by a man in Newcastle. It was discovered that what he had been using for the past 2 years to bang in nails was a live Second World War hand grenade.'

Obviously this DIY enthusiast had not read the recently published Greenhill Military Manual Ammunition: Small Arms, Grenades and Project Munitions by Ian V. Hogg.


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