Machine Guns of World War I: Live Firing Classic Military Weapons in Colour Photographs

by Robert H. Bruce

Book Overview

All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 color photographs. Detailed sequences shows them in close-up: during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and live firing trials with ball ammunition, by gunners wearing period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184797032X
• ISBN13: 9781847970329
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.2" x 11.4"