Название: A Revolution in Arms: A History of the First Repeating Rifles (Weapons in History)
Автор: Joseph G. Bilby
Издательство: Westholme Publishing
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 256
Размер: 14,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
Historians often call the American Civil War the first modern war, pointing to the use of observation balloons, the telegraph, trains, mines, ironclad ships, and other innovations. Although recent scholarship has challenged some of these “firsts,” the war did witness the introduction of the first repeating rifles.