A Story Of A Few Weapons
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A Story Of A Few Weapons
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Author : Reon Ho
language : en
Publisher: Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd
Release Date :
A Story Of A Few Weapons written by Reon Ho and has been published by Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Like some action? Some butt kicking? Like guns? Like monsters? Holy relics? Spartans? Magical or supernatural creatures? If the answer is yes to all of the above, then, this is the book for you! You are lucky to come across this one. It starts with an inhumane murder, and ends with smashing some gold for peace. Of course, the Sanitaurs and Minotaurs are going to save their beloved teenage king, or the king would soon be killed. But they brought a Toadaphant. What’s the Toadaphant? A dandruff-producing ball of fluff? A marine from the United States appears out of nowhere and a stupid sniper that surrounds him with mines too. If this is all too weird to start with, why not start reading this book? Go, go, chosen one.
Guns Galore
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Author : William Evans
language : en
Publisher: Small Arms Press
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Guns Galore written by William Evans and has been published by Small Arms Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Fiction categories.
Guns Galore is a thriller based in London during 1970 to 1990. The main markets for weapons dealers are Europe with North America, then they search the world for more surplus guns to buy and sell.Dealing has many risks. Although Guns Galore is mainly a non-fiction work, some dramatisation has been added to highlight the effects of shootings, murder, and kidnapping.Working for Sam Cummings of Interarms fame, the author turns into a dealer with him and his rival Bill Sucher of Century Arms both based in the USA. This leads to a world of international arms dealingInternational armouries must be sourced to find weapons. These hold mainly obsolete WW2 vintage guns. German and American weapons are highly sought after, followed by those of British manufacture. The reader is they come onto the market and become appreciating assets.Fraud of various types is often used by dealers and in-country agents are required to deal with governments. Commissions are paid to gain advantage, some hidden in slush funds. It's a mine field.Security services monitor dealers. Some will be used in secret shipments to hide government involvement with fake end user certificates.In Guns Galore, when Russia invades Afghanistan, President Carter supplies 70,000 WW2 rifles. Russia bans all weapon sales from the Eastern bloc, so other sources of supply must be found.
The Gun That Changed The World
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Author : Mikhail Kalashnikov
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2006-10-27
The Gun That Changed The World written by Mikhail Kalashnikov and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it’s ‘Kalashnikov’. The reason for this is simple: there are 80 million Kalashnikovs in circulation on five continents. Once invented, the AK-47 assault rifle became the most widely used weapon in the world: from Vietnam to Palestine, from Cuba to Iraq, it was at the heart of conflicts and struggles everywhere. It is the only firearm that has ever been depicted on a national flag – that of Mozambique, where it symbolizes liberation. Mikhail Kalashnikov himself, who was born in 1919, here tells his life story, with the help of Elena Joly, for the first time: his deportation to Siberia with his family while still a child; his time as a soldier in a tank regiment; his invention of the world’s most famous weapon and his turbulent life under Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin. This is a remarkable portrait of a man of ingenuity and vitality in the context of the often frightening and terribly unforgiving Russia of the twentieth century.
Giving Up The Gun
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Giving Up The Gun written by Noel Perrin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Social Science categories.
Was there ever a time when a civilization, technically sophisticated, and in full possession of its senses, reverted in an earlier, less advanced technology? You bet - Japan, 1543-1879. During this period Japan effectively prohibited all manufacture of firearms and gunpowder, and isolated itself from the rest of the world with a blockade that remained successful until Commodore Perry's celebrated "opening of Japan" in 1854. An altogether fascinating book - because Perrin is a consistently good storyteller, because even his footnotes are a delight to read, and because this is the story that really has few parallels in modern history.
Fifty Weapons That Changed The Course Of History
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Author : Joel Levy
language : en
Publisher: Apple Press
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Fifty Weapons That Changed The Course Of History written by Joel Levy and has been published by Apple Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Weapons categories.
The saga of human civilization has been formed and scarred by conflict. At eachstage of our history there have been defining episodes of violence, sometimeslong and simmering, at other times sudden and cataclysmic. And each stage has produced new forms of weaponry. Some of these weapons of war have been decisive, such as the terrifying war elephants deployed by Hannibal at the battle of Cannae in 216 B.C. Others have become iconic in our culture. Chief among these is the AK-47-symbol of communism, and now of terrorism, and the most widely found fiream in the world. Some weapons have been definitive in their simplcity, such as the bayonet; in other cases, such as the Tomahawk cruise missile, the sheer complexity is dazzling. Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History tells the story of the last 3,500 years through the weapons that have shaped it. The technical specifications, statlingly illus-trated, are given context and meaning by explaining their part in human conflict and their long-tem legacy. More than a manual of materiel, this is the story of the weapons that formed our world.
The Wheezers Dodgers
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Author : Gerald Pawle
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2009-01-15
The Wheezers Dodgers written by Gerald Pawle and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-15 with History categories.
A rare look inside the Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, “a fascinating report on the trials—and some tribulations—of a clandestine world” (Kirkus Reviews). Previously published under the title The Secret War 1939-1945, this is a firsthand account of the Admiralty’s Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, the so-called “Wheezers and Dodgers,” and the many ingenious weapons and devices it invented, improved or perfected. Gerald Pawle was one of a group of officers with engineering or scientific backgrounds who were charged with the task of winning the struggle for scientific mastery between the Allies and the Germans in what Churchill enthusiastically called “the wizard war.” Their work ranged from early stop-gap weapons like the steam-powered Holman projector, via great success stories like the Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar, to futuristic experiments with rockets, a minefield that could be sown in the sky, and the spectacularly dangerous Great Panjandrum, a giant explosive Catherine-wheel intended to storm enemy beaches. The development of these and many other extraordinary inventions, their triumphs and disasters, is told with panache and humor by Pawle, and a diverse group of highly imaginative and eccentric figures emerge from the pages.
The Sterling Years
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Author : James Edmiston
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2011-02-21
The Sterling Years written by James Edmiston and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-21 with History categories.
This is the story of the manufacture, development and usage of one of the most famous submachine Guns ever produced by a British Firm Designed at the end of WW2 it saw limited use on a trial basis, carried by paratroopers during the battle of Arnhem, but since the British Forces had plenty of Sten guns at the time, and tests between the two types of weapon were inconclusive, it was not until 1953, that with a few adjustments, the Weapon was formally adopted by the British Army Whilst not the most accurate of weapons, it was extremely useful in urban warfare and regarded as one of the most reliable submachine Guns throughout the world until it was withdrawn in 1988. A total of over 400,000 were manufactured. Sterling built them for the British armed forces and for overseas sales. The Sterling Guns was used as the basis for the weapons used by Storm Troopers in the Star Wars films.
The World S Assault Rifles
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Author : Gary Paul Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Ironside
Release Date : 2009-12-07
The World S Assault Rifles written by Gary Paul Johnston and has been published by Ironside this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-07 with Assault rifles categories.
Originally published: The world's assault rifles and automatic carbines / by Daniel D. Musgrave and Thomas B. Nelson, 1967.
Ak 47
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Author : Larry Kahaner
language : en
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Release Date : 2007
Ak 47 written by Larry Kahaner and has been published by Trade Paper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
No single weapon has spread so much raw power to so many people in so little time—and had such a devastating effect—as the AK-47 assault rifle. This book examines the legacy of this world-changing weapon, from its creation as means of fighting the Nazis to its ubiquity today in every kind of conflict, from civil wars in Africa to gang wars in L.A.
Gun Barons
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Author : John Bainbridge, Jr.
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2022-05-24
Gun Barons written by John Bainbridge, Jr. and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-24 with History categories.
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.