With the old of full color artworks, detailed cutaways, black & white and color photographs, and an authoritative text these gun books provide fascinating features of innumerous weapons.
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With the old of full color artworks, detailed cutaways, black & white and color photographs, and an authoritative text these gun books provide fascinating features of innumerous weapons.
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Add this copy of World's Great Machine Guns From 1860 to the Present Day to cart. $2.73, fair condition, Sold by Once Upon A Time Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tontitown, AR, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Chartwell Books.
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Fair. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
Add this copy of Worlds Great Machine Guns From 1860 to the Present Day to cart. $2.81, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Booksales.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Machine Guns, Firearms, Weapons) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Add this copy of World's Great Machine Guns From 1860 to the Present Day to cart. $29.88, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Chartwell Books.
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Very good. 176 pages. Contains chapters on Manually Operated Machine Guns, True Automatic Weapons, The Light Machine Gun--A Tactical Imperative, The Machine Pistol--Portable Firepower, The Modern Machine Gun. Also contains Index, as well as many black and white and color photographs of machine guns and their gunners. The third quarter of the eighteenth century saw dramatic changes in the way firearms worked, yet in a sense, the technology was actually falling over itself in its haste to embody new inventions. Not a few wrong turns were taken as a result--not least among them the mechanical, hand-cranked machine guns. The machine gun can perhaps be said to have been the first great American invention; three out of the four effective manual repeater guns were conceived there, and most of the important first-generation automatic guns were also the work of Americans. By the time of World War II, automatic weapons had become established in four categories: heavy, medium, and light machine guns and machine pistols. The World's Great Machine Guns traces the development of this revolutionary device form its raw beginning in the 1860s throughout the next two decades in which the manually operated machine guns produced by Gatling, Gardner, and Norden felt became and established part of every technologically advanced army's arsenal. The World's Great Machine Guns then examines how they were rendered obsolete overnight by the inventive genius of one man-Hiram Steven Maxim-alone and unaided, wand with hardly any relevant experience, produced the first true automatic guns, powered by same force which sent the bullets they fired on the way to the target. The World's Great Machine Guns goes on to examine the ways would-be competitors tried to break Maxim's hold on the huge world market to fur such guns, as the specter of globe war loomed, and how World War I brought the new weapon to deadly maturity. The World's Great Machine Guns also looks in detail at the development of the machine pistol, such as the Thompson and Sten, and of the light machine gun, both products of World War I. Coming right up to date The World's Great Machine Guns studies the general purpose machine gun and new developments such as the Minigun, which takes the wheel full circle and returns to external power and revolving array of barrels to achiever the sort of rate of fire Gatling himself could only have dreamed of.
Add this copy of World's Great Machine Guns From 1860 to the Present Day to cart. $55.42, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Chartwell Books.
