Centro de Documentação da PJ
Monografia

VAR5344.C.4
WILKINSON, Frederick
The world's great guns / Frederick Wilkinson.- London ; New York ; Sydney [etc.] : Hamlyn, 1977.- 256 p. : il. ; 30 cm
ISBN 0 600 39364 X

ARMAS, ARMA DE FOGO E MUNIÇÕES

Introduction. How it all began. The evolution of the musket. The wheel-lock: the hunter's weapon. Brown Bess. The long rifles. Duelling pistols. The genius of Samuel Colt. The era of the Winchester. Enfield and the modern rifle. Automatic pistols. Maxim and the machine-gun.