All the guns examined in this new paperback edition of Machine Guns of World War 1 belong to the class known as "automatic" and seven classic World War 1 weapons are illustrated in some 250 colour photographs. Detailed sequences shows them in close-up:during step-by-step field stripping, and during handling, loading and live firing trials with ball ammunition, by gunners wearing period uniforms to put these historic guns in their visual context.
- ISBN13 9781847970329
- Publish Date 23 June 2008 (first published 8 May 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint The Crowood Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English