Author: Archibald Montgomery Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Musket to Machine-gun
Author: Archibald Montgomery Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Musket to M14
Author: Carroll B. Colby
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780698302464
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
History of pistols, rifles and machine guns through the years.
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780698302464
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
History of pistols, rifles and machine guns through the years.
German Machineguns
Author: Daniel D. Musgrave
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine-guns
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine-guns
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Italian Small Arms of the First and Second World Wars
Author: Ralph Riccio
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764345838
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive work, in either English or Italian, to address Italian small arms used during World War I and World War II. It describes each weapon and covers the developmental history and use of all Italian designed and produced pistols, rifles, submachine guns and machine guns used during both conflicts, as well as prototype weapons and foreign weapons used by the Italians. Other appendices cover bayonets, accoutrements, markings, ammunition, small arms manufacturing facilities, Italian small arms designers, production summaries, and collector's notes. It includes many previously unpublished photographs and background information on small arms producers, ammunition production facilities, and designers. In addition to the new material, it also corrects previously published errors about Italian weapons. AUTHOR: Ralph Riccio spent twenty years as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer. He has written numerous magazine articles, many in Italian, as well as having authored several books dealing with Italian and Irish military equipment and history. His native Italian fluency has enabled him to develop extensive contacts with Italian military history experts and to delve deeply into research on Italian weapons and history. This latest book on Italian military small arms is the culmination of years of research on the subject. ILLUSTRATIONS: 608 b/w and colour photographs
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764345838
Category : Firearms
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive work, in either English or Italian, to address Italian small arms used during World War I and World War II. It describes each weapon and covers the developmental history and use of all Italian designed and produced pistols, rifles, submachine guns and machine guns used during both conflicts, as well as prototype weapons and foreign weapons used by the Italians. Other appendices cover bayonets, accoutrements, markings, ammunition, small arms manufacturing facilities, Italian small arms designers, production summaries, and collector's notes. It includes many previously unpublished photographs and background information on small arms producers, ammunition production facilities, and designers. In addition to the new material, it also corrects previously published errors about Italian weapons. AUTHOR: Ralph Riccio spent twenty years as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer. He has written numerous magazine articles, many in Italian, as well as having authored several books dealing with Italian and Irish military equipment and history. His native Italian fluency has enabled him to develop extensive contacts with Italian military history experts and to delve deeply into research on Italian weapons and history. This latest book on Italian military small arms is the culmination of years of research on the subject. ILLUSTRATIONS: 608 b/w and colour photographs
The Flintlock Musket
Author: Stuart Reid
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The flintlock or firelock musket is one of the most iconic weapons in history: used on the battlefields of the English Civil War, it was then carried by both sides at Blenheim, Bunker Hill, Waterloo and the Alamo, and dominated warfare for more than 150 years, with military service as late as the American Civil War in the 1860s. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this engaging study examines the role that the flintlock played in close-order combat on European and other battlefields around the world. Employing first-hand accounts to show how tactical doctrines were successfully developed to overcome the weapon's inherent limitations, Stuart Reid offers a comprehensive analysis of the flintlock's lasting impact as the first truly universal soldier's weapon.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472810961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The flintlock or firelock musket is one of the most iconic weapons in history: used on the battlefields of the English Civil War, it was then carried by both sides at Blenheim, Bunker Hill, Waterloo and the Alamo, and dominated warfare for more than 150 years, with military service as late as the American Civil War in the 1860s. Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork, this engaging study examines the role that the flintlock played in close-order combat on European and other battlefields around the world. Employing first-hand accounts to show how tactical doctrines were successfully developed to overcome the weapon's inherent limitations, Stuart Reid offers a comprehensive analysis of the flintlock's lasting impact as the first truly universal soldier's weapon.
Machine Guns of World War I
Author: Robert Bruce
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781847970329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 color photographs. Detailed sequences shows them in close-up: during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and live firing trials with ball ammunition, by gunners wearing period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context. These fascinating photographs are accompanied by concise, illustrated accounts of each weapon's historical and technical background. The reader will learn exactly what it looked like, sounded like and felt like to crew the German, British and French machine guns which dominated the battlefields of the Western Front in 1914-18, and which changed infantry tactics forever.
Publisher: Crowood Press UK
ISBN: 9781847970329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 color photographs. Detailed sequences shows them in close-up: during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and live firing trials with ball ammunition, by gunners wearing period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context. These fascinating photographs are accompanied by concise, illustrated accounts of each weapon's historical and technical background. The reader will learn exactly what it looked like, sounded like and felt like to crew the German, British and French machine guns which dominated the battlefields of the Western Front in 1914-18, and which changed infantry tactics forever.
Giving Up the Gun
Author: Noel Perrin
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879237738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Lord Hideyoshi, the regent of Japan at the time, took the first step toward the control of firearms. It was a very small step, and it was not taken simply to protect feudal lords from being shot at by peasants but to get all weapons out of the hands of civilians. He said nothing about arms control. Instead, he announced that he was going to build a statue of Buddha that would make all existing statues look like midgets. It would be so enormous (the figure was about twice the scale of the Statue of Liberty), that many tons of iron would be needed just for the braces and bolts. Still more was required to erect the accompanying temple, which was to cover a piece of ground something over an eighth of a mile square. All farmers, ji-samurai, and monks were invited to contribute their swords and guns to the cause. They were, in fact, required to. -- from publisher description.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879237738
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Lord Hideyoshi, the regent of Japan at the time, took the first step toward the control of firearms. It was a very small step, and it was not taken simply to protect feudal lords from being shot at by peasants but to get all weapons out of the hands of civilians. He said nothing about arms control. Instead, he announced that he was going to build a statue of Buddha that would make all existing statues look like midgets. It would be so enormous (the figure was about twice the scale of the Statue of Liberty), that many tons of iron would be needed just for the braces and bolts. Still more was required to erect the accompanying temple, which was to cover a piece of ground something over an eighth of a mile square. All farmers, ji-samurai, and monks were invited to contribute their swords and guns to the cause. They were, in fact, required to. -- from publisher description.
Firearms
Author: Kenneth Warren Chase
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, but it answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521822749
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from the time of their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, but it answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world.
Guns Across America
Author: Robert J. Spitzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019022858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating tour through the history of one of America's most controversial issues: gun control
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019022858X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A fascinating tour through the history of one of America's most controversial issues: gun control
New Principles of Gunnery
Author: Benjamin Robins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballistics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballistics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description