The illustrated encyclopedia of small arms
Subtitle: from hand cannons to automatic weapons
By: Rupert Matthews
Contributors: Berman Museum (Anniston, Ala.)
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781626860896
Subjects: Firearms; Encyclopedias
Other titles: Small arms
Description: A detailed historical overview of small arms from the Middle Ages to the present.
Notes: "In association with the Berman Museum of World History."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first small arms : prehistory-1300; title: The first firearms : 1300-1840; title: Repeating weapons : 1840-1914; title: The world wars : 1914-1945; title: Post-WWII weapons : 1945-present.