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The Illustrated history of guns, from first firearms to Semiautomatic weapons, Chuck Wills, in association with Berman Museums of World Art

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The Illustrated history of guns, from first firearms to Semiautomatic weapons, Chuck Wills, in association with Berman Museums of World Art

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Illustrated history of guns

Oclc number

867613060

Responsibility statement

Chuck Wills, in association with Berman Museums of World Art

Sub title

from first firearms to Semiautomatic weapons

Summary

See the history of civilization through the world's most deadly and fascinating firearms!The Illustrated History of Guns is a comprehensive look at the often deadly, sometimes surprising, always fascinating tools of battle. More than three hundred photographs of an eclectic mix of weapons were specially commissioned from the 8,000-piece collection of the Berman Museum of World History. Spanning the globe and hundreds of years, they include the traveling pistols of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Heinrich Himmler's rifle. A variety of rare weapons of espionage and combination curiosa

Table Of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Feature:The Gunpowder Revolution; Part I: Revolutionary Times; From Handcannon to Matchlock; From Matchlock to Flintlock; The Flintlock Pistol; Dueling Pistols; The Blunderbuss; Feature: Naval Weapons; Part II: From Napoleon to 1914; Weapons of the Napoleonic War; From Flintlock to Percussion Cap; Flintlock to Percussion Conversions; Pepperboxes and Derringers; Colt's Revolvers; Colt's Competitors; Feature: The American Civil War; Union Weapons of the Civil War; Confederate Weapons of the Civil War; Weapons of the American WestBolt-Action Magazine RiflesThe Automatic Pistol; Personal Defense Weapons; Combination Weapons; Feature: Alarm, Trap, & Special-Purpose Guns; Part III: World War I and its Aftermath; Pistols of World War I; Infantry Rifles of World War I; Machine Guns of World War I; Feature: Trench Warfare; Guns of the American Roaring Twenties; Part IV: World War II and Beyond; Axis Pistols; Allied Pistols; World War II Rifles; Machine Guns of World War II; Submachine Guns of World War II; Specialized Weapons of World War II; Weapons of Espionage; Post-World War II Weapons; Appendices; Bibliography

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