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Book Synopsis The Scottish Pistol by : Martin Kelvin
Download or read book The Scottish Pistol written by Martin Kelvin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research on the few pistols to have survived the Disarming Acts of the 18th century, this book traces in detail the evolution of the Scottish pistol in its various stylistic forms from the highly ornate to the functional. All aspects of the Scottish pistol's manufacturing history are covered, including contemporary shipping lists and Scotland's natural resources, as well as the history of the Hammerman Craft. Fakes and reproductions are discussed together with valuable advice to the unwary or inexperienced collector on their detection. An extensive section comprises an anthology of texts from the 17th to the 19th centuries relating historical instances of the pistol in use. This book is an indispensable resource, not only for historians and collectors but all those interested in the decorative arts and the history of design.
Book Synopsis An Eighteenth Century Scottish Pistol by : J. R. Mayer
Download or read book An Eighteenth Century Scottish Pistol written by J. R. Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pistols written by Jeff Kinard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of the pistol helped bring the age of the armored knight to an end, provided the elite with a status symbol of dangerous glamour, and inspired both artisans and industrialists to reach new heights of invention. Pistols follows the evolution of personal sidearms in Europe, the United States, and Asia from medieval-era "hand cannons" with their clunky ignition systems, to the revolutionary Colt revolvers of the 19th century, to the modern semiautomatic weapons of today. Full of fascinating insights and details, this work shows how pistols brought about the decline of knights in armor, and ultimately replaced the sword on the battlefield. The book also explores the pistol's astonishing "democratization" as it moved from being a luxury item of the nobility, to standard issue for soldiers, to a mass-produced commodity and source of intensive corporate competition. Along the way, readers meet the many colorful characters (often eccentric geniuses) who devoted themselves to pistol development.
Book Synopsis A Treatise on the "Doune" Scottish Pistol. [With Illustrations.]. by : Robin Gillanders
Download or read book A Treatise on the "Doune" Scottish Pistol. [With Illustrations.]. written by Robin Gillanders and published by . This book was released on 1967* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Weapons of the American Revolution by : George C. Neumann
Download or read book The History of Weapons of the American Revolution written by George C. Neumann and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1967 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648 by : Alexia Grosjean
Download or read book Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618–1648 written by Alexia Grosjean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.
Book Synopsis With His Pistol in His Hand by : Américo Paredes
Download or read book With His Pistol in His Hand written by Américo Paredes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one law for Anglo-Texans, another for Texas-Mexicans. The chase, capture, and imprisonment of Cortez are high drama that cannot easily be forgotten. Even today, in the cantinas along both sides of the Rio Grande, Mexicans sing the praises of the great "sheriff-killer" in the ballad which they call "El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez." Américo Paredes tells the story of Cortez, the man and the legend, in vivid, fascinating detail in "With His Pistol in His Hand," which also presents a unique study of a ballad in the making. Deftly woven into the story are interpretations of the Border country, its history, its people, and their folkways.
Book Synopsis Ancient Scottish Weapons by : James Drummond
Download or read book Ancient Scottish Weapons written by James Drummond and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Celtic Art on Scottish Pistols by : Joseph Ralph Mayer
Download or read book Celtic Art on Scottish Pistols written by Joseph Ralph Mayer and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Arms, Armour and Firearms by :
Download or read book Catalogue of Arms, Armour and Firearms written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries by : Herbert J. Jackson
Download or read book European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries written by Herbert J. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hand Gun Story written by John Walter and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firearms expert “traces the history of the ‘one hand gun’ from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design” (Midwest Book Review). Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire. This was cured by the cap-lock, which proved a massive success in the American Civil War, with hundreds of thousands of cap-lock revolvers used on each side. Self-contained metal-case cartridges were to bring a fundamental change to handgun design: not only by allowing the introduction of revolvers that ejected automatically or were easily reloaded, but also by paving the way for the automatic pistol. World War I provided the handgun with a proving ground. At the end of the hostilities, with so much surplus weaponry, work on the handgun could have ceased; instead, a new developmental phase was begun by the nations that had emerged from the crumbling Imperial empires. During World War II, the efficiency of well-established designs was confirmed and new designs, such as the Walther P. 38, showed their potential. The emergence of the submachine-gun in 1945 reduced the status of the handgun—but only temporarily. The need for efficient self-defense shows no signs of lessening; and the rise in shooting for sport, particularly with the revolver, has sharpened the quest for efficiency. The never ending search for advanced production techniques shows that the handgun has as much a future in the twenty-first century as it had in the heyday of the Wild West, or in the trenches of Passchendaele.
Book Synopsis A History of Firearms by : W. Y. Carman
Download or read book A History of Firearms written by W. Y. Carman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amply illustrated with pen & ink drawings, and including a glossary of key terms, this volume, originally published in 1955, traces the history of firearms and the pioneers who made that history, step by step, to the fringe of a complex modern science.
Download or read book Luger written by John Walter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinctive look of the Luger and its role in German military history make it the world’s most famous handgun. In Luger, renowned gun expert John Walter traces the history of this semiautomatic pistol from an early design by Hugo Borchardt in the 1890s through its use in the trenches of the First World War to the final days of the Third Reich in WWII. Other books on the Parabellum-Pistole, as the Luger was also known, focus strictly on narrow subjects like manufacturing details or accessories. While still offering the technical details to satisfy the collector, Walter provides a comprehensive narrative history. Readers will learn of the initial collaboration between Borchardt and Georg J. Luger, who patented the design in 1898. Following initial adoption by the Swiss Army, design refinements convinced the Imperial German Navy to order the sidearm, while the US Army passed on it following field trials in favor of the Colt. Production ramped up for World War I and the gun became a prized trophy for Allied soldiers in both that conflict and World War II. (German soldiers, aware of their desirability, even used them as bait for booby traps.) Today, it is still desired by collectors both for its unique design and for its connection to the history of Nazi Germany, and Luger: The Story of the World’s Most Famous Handgun tells how it came to be.
Download or read book Best Guns written by Michael McIntosh and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best and most comprehensive guide for those new to the world of fine guns, and a standard reference for everyone, written with the precision and the seamless grace that is a Michael McIntosh's trademark style.
Download or read book Living with Guns written by Craig Whitney and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former editor at the New York Times examines the war over gun control in America and the rigid and intolerant ideologies that have informed the debate on both sides for more than 50 years. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Flintlock written by Torsten Lenk and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
