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Military Small Arms: 300 Years of Soldiers' Firearms
Military Small Arms 300 Years of Soldiers' Firearms Author:Smith, Graham, ed. For the last 300 years, those who have fought in the hundreds of conflicts that have taken place around the globe have been equipped with a bewildering array of weapons. A myriad of pistols, revolvers, automatics, muskets, rifles, assault rifles, submachine guns and machine guns have all been developed and used with varying degrees of success. — ... more »This superbly illustrated volume describes 500 of the most significant infantry and cavalry small arms of the last three centuries. It shows how designers and engineers responded to the needs of the fighting man, and how their ingenuity gave him new combat capabilities.« less