Description
Explores the development of handguns and small arms from the Napoleonic Wars through the twentieth century and describes the features and capacities of several models while examining their impact on history.
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Explores the development of the hand weapon, from the invention of the percussion cap in the 1830s and the development of smokeless nitrocellulose propellants in the 1870s, to the increasingly complex family of weapons of the present
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