Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons

A History from the Zhuge Crossbow Through the AK-47

Gerald Prenderghast (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

434 Seiten

2018
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6666-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

The late Gerald Prenderghast was a military historian and lived in Kent, United Kingdom. His publications included books about historic firearms, maritime history and Britain's involvement in the Wars in Vietnam.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Zusatzinfo	256 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	762 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-6666-0 / 1476666660
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6666-2 / 9781476666662
Zustand	Neuware