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The Illustrated History of Guns: From First Firearms to Semiautomatic Weapons

The Illustrated History of Guns: From First Firearms to Semiautomatic Weapons

Wills, Chuck
The Berman Museum of World History
Sadowski, Robert A.

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 151072074X
ISBN13: 9781510720749
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub
Published: May 2 2017
Pages: 152
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.10 Depth: 10.70
Language: English
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.

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