Martin Pegler

Broschiertes Buch

Winchester Lever-Action Rifles

Beschreibung

Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West. This book explores the Winchesters' unique place in history, revealing the technical secrets of their success with a full array of colour artwork, period illustrations and close-up photographs.

Autor

Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The Somme Historical Centre (www.martinpegler.com), where visitors can see the technology used in the 1914-18 trench warfare. He is currently an author and firearms consultant and he also lectures at local Great War museums. He is the author of a number of books including The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004). In the 1980s he had the privilege of interviewing many World War I veterans about their wartime experiences, and the recordings are now part of the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.

Produktdetails

• Weapon
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 186mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781472806574
• ISBN-10: 1472806573
• Artikelnr.: 42234243