From the earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have been anxious to develop weapons with more firepower. This inevitably led a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world's most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47--the ultimate "Woolworth's gun." The author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the...
From the earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have been anxious to develop weapons with more firepower. This inevitably led a wide variety o...
