Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons

Autorentext
Gerald Prenderghast is a military historian, living in Kent, United Kingdom. His publications include books about historic firearms, maritime history and Britain's involvement in the Wars in Vietnam.

Klappentext
From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower. This has inevitably led to 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 author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the semiautomatic pistol and the role of the submachine gun in improving the effectiveness of the infantryman.

Zusammenfassung
From the earliest days of organised warfare, the military establishment have been anxious to find weapons with more firepower than the enemy. Inevitably, this led to the production of repeating weapons. Based largely upon original research, this book examines the development of these repeating and multi-fire weapons.

Inhalt
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Glossary
Section I: Early Repeating Weapons
One. Repeating Weapons from the Ancient World
Section II: Without Black Powder
Two. Perkin's Steam Gun and Other Oddities
Section III: The Black Powder
Three. Early Military Rockets
Four. Early Black Powder Weapons
Five. Early Repeating Pistols and Colt's Percussion Revolvers
Six. The Rimfire Revolver and Rollin White's Patent
Seven. Pinfire and Centerfire Revolvers
Eight. Repeating Rifles and Shotguns
Nine. Early Machine Guns and Repeating Cannon
Ten. The Gatling Gun: Gatling's 150-Year-Old Masterpiece
Section IV: The Smokeless Powder
Eleven. Maxim's Automatic Machine Gun: "The Devil's Paintbrush"
Twelve. Smokeless Powder and Repeating Rifles
Thirteen. Self-Loading or Semiautomatic Pistols
Section V: The ­Machine-gun
Fourteen. The Development of Repeating and ­Multi-fire Weapons in the Early 20th Century
Fifteen. Light Machine Guns in World War I
Sixteen. Medium and Heavy Machine Guns in World War I
Seventeen. Submachine Guns, Semiautomatic Rifles and Postwar Changes
Eighteen. Light Machine Gun Development After World War I
Nineteen. Heavy Machine Gun and Automatic Cannon Development After World War I
Twenty. Assault Rifles and the Rise of the "Woolworth's" Gun
Twenty-one. Perspectives
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

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