Title:
The illustrated history of guns : from first firearms to semiautomatic weapons / Chuck Wills, in association with Berman Museums of World Art.
ISBN:
9781629145570
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014]
©2014
Physical Description:
144 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Contents:
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 West -- Bolt-Action Magazine Rifles -- The 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.
Summary:
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.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn867613060
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
