Small Arms Visual Encyclopedia

by Martin J. Dougherty, Michael Spilling (Editor)

Small Arms: Visual Encyclopedia by Martin J. Dougherty A highly illustrated guide to small arms from the fifteenth century to the present day. Features flintlock weapons, repeater rifles, shotguns, submachine guns, assault rifles, heavy machine guns, and handheld anti-tank weapons, including famous models such as the Colt Navy revolver, Gatling gun, Kar 98 rifle, Thompson 1928 submachine gun, Uzi, and M110 Semi-automatic Sniper System. Features more than 800 artworks and profile images of firearms in full color. Each weapon is accompanied by detailed specifications listing dimensions, caliber, range, and rate of fire.

Genres: Reference

Paperback

First published September 1, 2011

About the author

Hailing from northeast England, Martin J Dougherty is a professional writer specialising in military history. He has been at times a games designer, an engineer, a self-protection instructor, a teacher and a defence analyst. Martin has published a range of books covering topics as diverse as self-protection, medieval warfare and space flight, and has addressed international conferences on anti-shipping missiles and homeland security issues.

Martin's interests include martial arts and fencing. He has coached Fencing, Ju-Jitsu, Self-Defence and Kickboxing for many years at the University of Sunderland, and has competed to national level as a fencer. As a martial artist he holds black belts in Combat Ju-Jitsu, Nihon Tai-Jitsu and Self-Defence. Martin is a Senior Assessor with the Self-Defence Federation and an IL1 instructor/assessor with the Britsh Federation for Historical Swordplay, specialising in the Military Sabre and the Smallsword.

Reviews

[Lou Regiet]

I want the read

[Guylaen O'Connor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have fired A LOT of weapons systems in my time in the military. I am dead set against the second amendment for the obvious reason that I know what weapons can do, but I appreciate the craftsmanship of a weapon nonetheless.

AS A FICTION WRITER this book is an absolute ESSENTIAL REFERENCE BOOK. You will find yourself flipping through to a period in history that you're writing about, and wondering what sort of weapons that they might be carrying around. To ground yourself in as much realism as possible, get ahold of this book, and use it as a guide.

If you can, try to fire the weapon at a range at least once, so you can get an empathetic understanding of the character's duty in lugging the thing around.

[Anthony Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the Thompson submachine gun

[Kevindex · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book really gave me new information about different types of guns. Some I might have known about but there were allot I did not know about to. I recommend this book to any one who has any interest in guns.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This work contains brief descriptions of handguns and long guns of the world along with colored drawings or photos. These firearms are broken down by time periods. A good firearms reference.

[Dylan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful for a visualization of the weapons with little blurbs of information for a quick knowledge on the weapon. It does well on covering a large range of small arms over the years.