Author Name
Halberstadt, Hans.
Title THE WORLD'S GREAT ARTILLERY: FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good+
Edition First Edition
Publisher Hoo, Kent Grange 2002
ISBN Number
184013478X / 9781840134780
Seller ID 29469
176 pp, 12 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour photographs, drawings, reproductions. "(B)egins with the earliest pieces of Western artillery that were little more than iron tubes firing stone shot. Over the next few centuries the guns became more mobile and more powerful, influencing the course of the battles in which they were involved. Muzzle loaders reached their apogee in the Napoleonic wars and the American Civil War during the nineteenth century. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, breech-loaded guns were the standard, and weapons of such large calibres were being constructed that they needed to be mounted on rail wagons to give them any form of mobility. Artillery played a significant role in shaping how that conflict was fought, and it was to play an equally signifi-cant role in World War II. Only now, in the twenty-first century, is the supremacy of artillery on the battlefield being challenged by air-dropped precision-guided weapons, but the arm is fighting back with sophisticated new munitions becoming available which will ensure that artillery has a part to play on the modern battlefield for the forseeable future." Chapter headings: Sighting Shots; The American Civil War; Storm of Steel, 1900-1935; Master of the Battlefield, 1936-1945; Cold War Killers; Glossary; Index. Book is fine. Dust jacket minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor rubbing.
American
Civil
War,
M1857
Napoleon
Cannons,
M1861
Parrott
Rifles,
Ammunition,
Artillery,
Howitzers,
Self-Propelled
Guns,
Cannons,
France,
Germany,
Flak,
Gun
Crews,
Gunpowder,
Railway
Guns,
M1,
Mortars,
Ordnance,
Railway
Artillery,
Rocket
Systems,
Russia,
Propellants,
United
Kingdom,
United
States,
World
War
II,
Second
World
War,
First
World
War,
USSR,
Defence,
Muzzle
Loaders,
Breech-load,
Weapons,
Guided
Missiles,
Munitions,
Cold
War,
Coehorn
Mortar,
SCUD,
DANA,
Recoilless
Rifles,
Multiple
Rocket
Launcher,
Crusader.
Price =
25.00 USD
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