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Machine Guns: 14th Century to Present

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The late Ian Hogg, a retired British Warrant Officer, was probably the ultimate expert on military weapons from BBs to Battleships. In this book he covers the history of Machine Guns, both common and unique, relating the history, functioning, and handling from the 1700's "Puckle Gun"(with square bullets for shooting infidels - quite handy in today's world)to current weapons. His knowlidge can be scarcely faulted and his humor refreshing

I read this excellent book, here in Brazil.This book is complete, correct and has many photos.The photos are in majority black and white, but there's about fifteen pages, only with colored photos in this book.After the preface, there's eight chapters in this amazing book.The last chapter is about the automatic cannon, used in aircraft and armoured vehicles such as the american Bradley tank.The chapter seven is about the machine guns during the Cold War.After the last chapter, follows six appendixes, a glossary and then the index.In each chapter, there's technical reports about the most importants machine guns ever produced:Madsen, Lewis, BAR,Bren,MG-34, MG-42,DShK 38, M60, PK, FN-MAG,etc.On page 197, there's some informations about a brazilian machine gun that never entered in serial production, the Uirapuru.About machine guns, this book is a masterpiece.Don't forget that machine guns are one thing,while submachine guns are another thing.This book has nothing about Sten gun or Uzi, that are both submachine guns.This book is about machine guns.Today is 29th february.Only in every four years, that a book so good, about machine guns can be writen.The author isn't alive today, but he made a masterpiece about machine guns.