Worlds Great Machine Guns

by Roger Ford

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Illustrated with full-color artworks--many of them cut away to reveal the inner workings of the weapon--and with comprehensive specifications throughout, this book traces the development of the machine gun from the 1860s to the present day.

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Roger Ford is an acknowledged expert on the development of modern weaponry and the employment weapons on the battlefield. He is the author of The Tiger Tank and the definitive history of the development and deployment of the machine gun. The Grim Reaper, and of a comprehensive study of close-quarters combat in the twentieth century. The Whites of show more Their Eyes. show less

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Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
623.4424TechnologyEngineeringMilitary and nautical engineeringTechnology of Weapons and ArmamentsPersonal Arms
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UF620 .A2 .W625Military ScienceArtilleryArtilleryOrdnance material (Ordnance proper)

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