Author: William Clyde DeVanePublisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts
ISBN:
Category : Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A handbook to Robert Browning's life and work.
A Browning Handbook
Author: William Clyde DeVanePublisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts
ISBN:
Category : Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A handbook to Robert Browning's life and work.
A Browning Handbook
Author: William Clyde De VaneThe Guns of John Moses Browning
Author: Nathan GorensteinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982129220
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A “well-researched and very readable new biography” (The Wall Street Journal) of “the Thomas Edison of guns,” a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose awe-inspiring array of firearms helped ensure victory in numerous American wars and holds a crucial place in world history. Few people are aware that John Moses Browning—a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West—was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict. He invented the design used in virtually all modern pistols, created the most popular hunting rifles and shotguns, and conceived the machine guns that proved decisive not just in World Wars I and II but nearly every major military action since. Yet few in America knew his name until he was into his sixties. Now, author Nathan Gorenstein brings firearms inventor John Moses Browning to vivid life in this riveting and revealing biography. Embodying the tradition of self-made, self-educated geniuses (like Lincoln and Edison), Browning was able to think in three dimensions (he never used blueprints) and his gifted mind produced everything from the famous Winchester “30-30” hunting rifle to the awesomely effective machine guns used by every American aircraft and infantry unit in World War II. The British credited Browning’s guns with helping to win the Battle of Britain. His inventions illustrate both the good and bad of weapons. Sweeping, lively, and brilliantly told, this fascinating book that “gun collectors and historians of armaments will cherish” (Kirkus Reviews) introduces a little-known legend whose impact on history ranks with that of the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
A Browning Handbook
Author: William Clyde DeVanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
FN Browning Pistols
Author: Anthony VanderlindenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780970799791
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Expanded, Second Edition
The Ring and the Book
Author: Robert BrowningA Browning Handbook
Author: A Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning
Author: Mrs. Sutherland OrrA Handbook to the Works of Browning
Author: Sutherland OrrPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732683524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Handbook to the Works of Browning by Sutherland Orr
A Browning Handbook ... Second Edition
Author: William Clyde DE VANEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description