Book Description

A number of textbooks of Small Arms were issued in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the 1929 edition is one of the most important. It covers the history of many types of small arms (rifles, pistols and revolvers, swords, lances, bayonets, grenades and machine guns. Also includes a good treatment of ammunition, and has a section on ballistics (internal and external). Comes complete with all appendices and foldouts in their original positions.