Rifles of the World
Author: John Walter
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780873492027
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Author: John Walter
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780873492027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive illustrated guide to the world's centerfire and rimfire rifles.
Author: William T. Vollmann
Publisher: New York : Viking
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel about Sir John Franklin's 19th-century Arctic expedition and about modern Inuit life.
Author: Ian McCollum
Publisher:
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781733424608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Winthrop Sawyer
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 526
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chris Kyle
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0062242733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING FOLLOW-UP TO AMERICAN SNIPER Join Chris Kyle on a journedy to discover “how 10 firearms changed United States history” (New York Times Book Review) Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of America—from the Revolution to the present—through the lens of ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45 revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911 pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and sacrifice. Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features a bonus chapter, “The Eleventh Gun,” on shotguns, derringers, and the Browning M2 machine gun.
Author: Mark Urban
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0571246915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end of the six-year campaign they have not only proved themselves the toughest fighters in the army, they have also - at huge personal cost - created the modern notion of the infantryman.In an exhilarating work of narrative military history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th Rifles, the toughest and deadliest sharpshooters of Wellington's Army.'If you like Sharpe, then this book is a must, your Christmas present solved.' Bernard Cornwell, Daily Mail'Urban writes history the way it should be written, alive and exciting.' Andy McNab
Author: Harold Keith
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1987-09-25
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 006447030X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeff Bussey walked briskly up the rutted wagon road toward Fort Leavenworth on his way to join the Union volunteers. It was 1861 in Linn County, Kansas, and Jeff was elated at the prospect of fighting for the North at last. In the Indian country south of Kansas there was dread in the air; and the name, Stand Watie, was on every tongue. A hero to the rebel, a devil to the Union man, Stand Watie led the Cherokee Indian Na-tion fearlessly and successfully on savage raids behind the Union lines. Jeff came to know the Watie men only too well. He was probably the only soldier in the West to see the Civil War from both sides and live to tell about it. Amid the roar of cannon and the swish of flying grape, Jeff learned what it meant to fight in battle. He learned how it felt never to have enough to eat, to forage for his food or starve. He saw the green fields of Kansas and Okla-homa laid waste by Watie's raiding parties, homes gutted, precious corn deliberately uprooted. He marched endlessly across parched, hot land, through mud and slash-ing rain, always hungry, always dirty and dog-tired. And, Jeff, plain-spoken and honest, made friends and enemies. The friends were strong men like Noah Babbitt, the itinerant printer who once walked from Topeka to Galveston to see the magnolias in bloom; boys like Jimmy Lear, too young to carry a gun but old enough to give up his life at Cane Hill; ugly, big-eared Heifer, who made the best sourdough biscuits in the Choctaw country; and beautiful Lucy Washbourne, rebel to the marrow and proud of it. The enemies were men of an-other breed - hard-bitten Captain Clardy for one, a cruel officer with hatred for Jeff in his eyes and a dark secret on his soul. This is a rich and sweeping novel-rich in its panorama of history; in its details so clear that the reader never doubts for a moment that he is there; in its dozens of different people, each one fully realized and wholly recognizable. It is a story of a lesser -- known part of the Civil War, the Western campaign, a part different in its issues and its problems, and fought with a different savagery. Inexorably it moves to a dramat-ic climax, evoking a brilliant picture of a war and the men of both sides who fought in it.
Author: Alexander Rose
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0553384384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
Author: Townsend Whelen
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 660
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Terry Wieland
Publisher: Deer Hunting MG
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781440230165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers the reader a blow-by-blow, you-are-there reports on some of the greatest American firearms since 1776. From historical combat firearms to modern classics, it provides a unique perspective on American combat rifles that are recognised around the world as classic combat rifles.