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Author : Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher : New York : Greenberg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Weapon Makers written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by New York : Greenberg. This book was released on 1952 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. E. Van Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450045158
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Weapon Makers written by A. E. Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476683786
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Gun Makers of Birmingham, 1660-1960 written by Joseph McKenna and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history and development of gun-making in Birmingham, England--for many years a center of the world's firearms industry--this book covers innovations in design and manufacture of both military and sporting arms from 1660 through 1960. The city is perhaps best known for mass-producing some of the most battle-tested weapons in history, including the Brown Bess musket, the Webley revolver and the Lee-Enfield rifle. Yet Birmingham's gun-makers have carried on a centuries-long tradition of crafting high quality hand-made sporting guns.
Author : K.D. Kirkland
Publisher : JG Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572151024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book America's Premier Gunmakers: Colt written by K.D. Kirkland and published by JG Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's great gunmakers are more than industrial entities. They are centers of exacting craftsmanship and precision engineering, and they are truly living legends. American gunmakers built not only the guns that won the Wild West but the guns that won both World Wars, and which today delight demanding sportsmen the world over. In this volume of America's Premier Gunmakers you will read about: The Arms of Samuel Colt, Metallic Cartridges, Great Colts of the Nineteenth Century, The Evolution of the Modern Colt Revolver, Automatic Pistols and Rifles, Craftsmanship in the Twentieth Century and Excellence and Art. Among firearms enthusiasts, craftsmanship, quality and history have become synonymous with the name Colt. Samuel Colt's whittled prototype of the modern revolver, patented in 1836, has become part of the American Tradition, as have the company's later models; the Peacemaker ("the gun that won the west"), the Colt Army and Navy pistols, and today's ubiquitous M16 military rifle. The history of Colt is in many ways the history of America itself. The artistry and excellence of the guns it manufactured saw the country through the winning of the Wild West and the law enforcement needs brought about by the gangland violence of the Prohibition era, and Colt contributed invaluably to the war effort during World Wars I and II. This book traces the history of Colt from its nineteenth century origins, through the turbulent years that followed, to the present day. Well documented and illustrated with beautiful color photographs, this book is a treasure that will delight any firearms enthusiast, whether sportsman or historian.
Author : Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Weapon Shops of Isher written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Feinstein
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429932716
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Shadow World written by Andrew Feinstein and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shadow World presents the behind-the-scenes tale of the global arms trade, exposing in forensic detail the deadly collusion that too often exists among senior politicians, weapons manufacturers, felonious arms dealers, and the military--a situation that compromises our security and undermines our democracy. Now a major PBS documentary "An authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking, and enraging."--Arundhati Roy Andrew Feinstein reveals the cover-ups behind a range of weapons deals, from the largest in history--between the British and Saudi governments---to the guns-for-diamonds deals in Africa and the current $60 billion U.S. weapons contract with Saudi Arabia. Based on pathbreaking reporting and unprecedented access to top-secret information, The Shadow World takes us into a clandestine realm that is as vitally important as it is shocking.
Author : Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450422706
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)
Download or read book The Weapon Shops of Isher written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bainbridge, Jr.
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250266874
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Gun Barons written by John Bainbridge, Jr. and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bainbridge, Jr.'s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the world's industrial powers. Their creations helped save a nation divided, while planting seeds that would divide the country again a century later. Their inventions embodied an intoxicating thread of American individualism—part fiction, part reality—that remains the foundation of modern gun culture. They promoted guns not only for the soldier, but for the Everyman, and also made themselves wealthy beyond their most fevered dreams. Gun Barons captures how their bold inventiveness dwelled in the psyche of an entire people, not just in the minds of men who made firearm fortunes. Whether we revere these larger-than-life men or vilify them, they helped forge the American character.
Author : Alfred Elton Van Vogt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Weapon Shops of Isher written by Alfred Elton Van Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Langford
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Pic the Weapon-Maker written by George Langford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pic the Weapon-Maker" by George Langford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : George Langford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Pic, the Weapon-maker written by George Langford and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. E. van Vogt
Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 9780312875008
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Empire of Isher written by A. E. van Vogt and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2000-07-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735221871
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Empire of Guns written by Priya Satia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : Donald Dallas
Publisher : Quiller Press
ISBN 13 : 9781899163632
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (636 download)
Download or read book Purdey Gun & Rifle Makers written by Donald Dallas and published by Quiller Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most spectacular and beautifully produced history of Purdey Gunmakers with full colour plates and unique photographs and documents from the company's own archives - the ultimate book for any shooting enthusiast.
Author : Dan Fesperman
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307272281
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Arms Maker of Berlin written by Dan Fesperman and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching thriller that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. • “Compelling…nonstop action.” —The Baltimore Sun When Nat Turnbull’s mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up dead in jail, Nat’s quiet academic life is suddenly thrown into tumult. The archive is a time bomb of sensitive material, but key documents are still missing, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track them down. Following a trail of cryptic clues, Nat's journeys to Germany, where he soon crosses paths with Berta, a gorgeous and mysterious student and Kurt Bauer, an arms billionaire with a dark past. As their tales intersect, long-buried exploits of deceit emerge, and each step becomes more dangerous than the last.
Author : William Wellington Greener
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Gun and Its Development written by William Wellington Greener and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Dallhammer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783844074659
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Textbook of Pistol Technology and Design written by Peter Dallhammer and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
