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Author : Chris McNab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 159223304X
An encyclopedic look at firearms.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Thunder Bay Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Firearms
ISBN : 1571452877
Profiles more than one thousand gun models, including antiques, military weapons, and others, providing color photos, technical specifications, and details on their origins, performance, and use.
Author : Anonim
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The beautifully photographed catalog tells the story of gun development in striking detail and features stunning close-ups of key weapons, from muskets, pistols, revolvers and rifles to shotguns, machine guns and modern machinery.
Author : Chuck Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510716193
For the first time in paperback, a photographic history of civilization, as seen through the world's most deadly and fascinating firearms. The Illustrated History of Guns is a comprehensive look at the tools of battle. To craft this book, more than five hundred photographs of genuine specimens were specially commissioned from the six-thousand-piece collection of the Berman Museum of World History. The weapons featured span a period of close to four thousand years, ranging from Ancient Greece to World War II, and from the Crusades in Europe to the US Civil War. It features a wide array of diverse treasures, including the traveling pistols of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, a royal Persian scimitar with 1,295 rose-cut diamonds and rubies, and a single 11-carat emerald set in gold, first owned by Shah Abbas I of Persia and given in tribute to Catherine the Great. The Illustrated History of Guns also offers information on weapons innovators, including Alexander Forsyth, Eliphalet Remington, Samuel Colt, Sergei Mosin, the Mauser brothers, Hiram Maxim, John Browning, Richard Gatling, John T. Thompson, John Garland, Feodor Tokarev, Oliver Winchester, and Mikhail Kalashnikov. With unparalleled historical perspective and background on persons significant to the development and advancements of weapons technology or military strategy, The Illustrated History of Guns belongs on the shelf of every history buff and firearms enthusiast.
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781510756854
Written by a technical expert who has fired many of the guns featured, this book includes wide and varied assemblage of weapons from each of the world’s major manufacturing countries. The Illustrated Directory series provide readers with a fully illustrated, comprehensive reference book packed with timelines, historical facts, and images designed to inform and excite. At 512 pages packed with information and photographs, this book is a necessary addition to any enthusiast's library. Complete with full specification table with each entry including type, origin, caliber, and size, The Illustrated Directory of Guns is the most ambitious and lavishly illustrated history of guns for the collector and enthusiast. It shows in clear, detailed photographs and text over 1500 guns with separate sections on Pistols, Revolvers, Rifles, Shotguns (military and sporting), Machine Guns, and Submachine guns. A few featured include: Remington Smith & Wesson Winchester Glock Vickers Mauser Browning Colt Beretta And more Organized A-Z by country and gunmaker's name, the book clearly shows the different types of gun which the world has used to hunt, wage war, break and defend its laws, hone its sharpshooting skills, and fire purely for the fun of it. The book also features an introduction on each section, which gives a brief history of the development of that particular kind of firearm.
Author : Silvio Calabi,Steve Helsley,Roger Sanger
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781608934409
This third installment in the popular series of practical books about guns and shooting is aimed at women of all ages—the fastest-growing segment of the sport—and it couldn’t come at a better time. America and firearms literally grew up together, but today guns are often simply linked to crime and violence; gun control has become a polarizing political issue; and misinformation about firearms is spreading. Now three experts have tackled the subject in a series of books that explores the realities of guns and shooting and sets the record straight about some common misconceptions. On the heels of The Gun Book for Boys and The Gun Book for Parents, The Gun Book for Girls is for girls (and women) interested in guns and shooting but who have little or no background in firearms. Through example and anecdote, the book emphasizes safety and proper usage, and it defines terms and provides hands-on advice about using and maintaining guns. It also covers firearms, shooting methods, clothing and accessories for women, profiles females who shoot and who work in the gun trade, and discusses the issues around guns for self-defense (a topic of special interest to women). Like the other two titles, this book is non-political and written in an easy-to-understand conversational tone. Each book is thoroughly illustrated, and content is presented in easily managed portions that can be read in series or singly, all backed up with an index.
Author : S. P. Fjestad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1936 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1886768552
The "bible" of the firearms industry for accurate value information and descriptions of rifles, pistols, and shotguns. The industry standard for over 25 years!
Author : Jack O'Connor
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258007
A comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to modern sporting rifles and how to use them, cartridges for small, medium and big game, barrels, stocks, sights, scopes, shooting techniques, where to hit them, modern shotguns and how to use them, double, pump, automatic, shotgun stocks, shells, chokes, care of your shotgun, history of sporting rifles and shotguns, complete glossary, PLUS Jack O’Connor’s Seven Lesson “How to Shoot Course”.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221871
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : Patrick Sweeney
Publisher : Gun Digest Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0896896781
The AK and SKS are the most widely used and well known assault rifles in the world, and this comprehensive look at these famous rifles contains never-before-published information blended with 600 photos, and written by the leading expert in assault weapons.
Author : Paul J. Hazell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030736521
This engaging and accessible book explains the scientific principles behind guns, both ancient and modern. It connects their evolution to advances in science, as well as tracing the developments of projectiles and propellants. It is not limited to small arms but also looks at the science of enormous guns such the Paris Gun, for example, and reviews the efforts to build a gun to launch projectiles into space. Extremely fast guns are also covered, such as two-stage guns and rail guns. Further, the book provides insight into the science of terminal ballistics and wound ballistics as well as the challenging subject of gun control. It is full of interesting facts for all who are curious about the science and history of guns, as well as those for whom the gun is an accessory of their profession.
Author : Gordon L. Rottman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782006206
Offering a step by step guide through interesting gun facts and statistics, Gordon Rottman presents The Book of Gun Trivia. Covering a range of subjects, such as weapons designations, where rifles get their names from, the longest serving rifles and everything in between, this book brings together everything you ever needed to know about guns and ammunition and much more besides. Alongside the key facts and figures, Rottman also breaks apart popular myths and misconceptions about both weapons and ammunition, putting his years of military service to good use.
Author : Philip Massaro
Publisher : Gun Digest
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951115627
THE 77TH EDITION OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST GUN BOOK! For three-quarters of a century, Gun Digest has served as the trusted source for up-to-date, detailed, and exciting information about firearms. Gun Digest is the finest collection of great stories, historical reflections, in-depth reviews, and new-product roundups available anywhere. If it has anything to do with firearms and shooting sports, you'll find it here: nearly 600 pages covering rifles, shotguns, muzzleloaders, handguns, airguns, optics, ammunition, and accessories will feed your need for gun information and entertainment. And it is all written by some of the most knowledgeable gun writers in the industry. This comprehensive collection of all things firearms is why, after more than seven decades, Gun Digest still reigns as "The World's Greatest Gun Book!" IT'S ALL HERE! In-Depth Features from Top Gun Writers Reports on New Rifles, Shotguns, Handguns & More Gun Catalog and Buyers' Guide Updated Ballistics Tables Advice on Selecting Ammo & Optics
Author : C. J. Chivers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743271738
Traces the history of the AK-47 assault rifle, from its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, discussing how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.
Author : Robert A. Sadowski
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781616088750
Provides step-by-step instructions and manufacturer specifications for all aspects of firearms maintenance while sharing accompanying tips for a wide range of firearms categories.
