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Free Download History of the Gun in 500 Photographs
Time-Life Books | 2016 | ISBN: 1618933655 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 150.16 MB
Few inventions have had more of a profound impact on the course of civilization than guns: The first hand-held versions were Chinese fire lances invented in the 10th century, though it was Europeans who were credited with creating the handheld weapons that we recognize today. Americans and their expansion westward were the ones who refined, and helped define innovation and the development of an industry. Starting with Samuel Colt and the "revolver revolution," Americans took the lead in moving gun development forward. Names now well-known including Wesson, Winchester, and Browning helped create weapons that helped move a nation forward and ushered in the industrialized warfare of World War I. Now, TIME-LIFE, in the next book in the success "500 Photographs" series, following World War II in 500 Photographs and The Civil War in 500 Photographs, brings readers The History of the Gun in 500 Photographs, which traces the fascinating evolution of firearms, not just as tools of security, but as ingenious feats of science and engineering.

Free Download History of the Gun in 500 Photographs
Time-Life Books | 2016 | ISBN: 1618933655 | English | 260 pages | PDF | 150.16 MB
Few inventions have had more of a profound impact on the course of civilization than guns: The first hand-held versions were Chinese fire lances invented in the 10th century, though it was Europeans who were credited with creating the handheld weapons that we recognize today. Americans and their expansion westward were the ones who refined, and helped define innovation and the development of an industry. Starting with Samuel Colt and the "revolver revolution," Americans took the lead in moving gun development forward. Names now well-known including Wesson, Winchester, and Browning helped create weapons that helped move a nation forward and ushered in the industrialized warfare of World War I. Now, TIME-LIFE, in the next book in the success "500 Photographs" series, following World War II in 500 Photographs and The Civil War in 500 Photographs, brings readers The History of the Gun in 500 Photographs, which traces the fascinating evolution of firearms, not just as tools of security, but as ingenious feats of science and engineering.

Free Download Gun Digest Book of Rimfire Rifles Assembly/Disassembly: Step-by-Step Photos for 74 Models & 228 Variables, 3rd Edition by Kevin Muramatsu
English | October 18, 2011 | ISBN: 1440218137 | True EPUB | 576 pages | 146 MB
Shooters, gunsmiths, and collectors alike will find the revised version of Gun Digest’s Book of Rimfire Rifles Assembly/Disassembly a practical reference for disassembling and reassembling a variety of rimfire rifles. Step-by-step high-resolution photography and clear, simple text makes it easy to disassemble an reassemble a wide-range of modern and vintage models. Kevin Murumatsu has over 40 years of gunsmithing experience and it shows through reassembly tips, which overcome each model’s specific reassembly hurdles.

Free Download Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings, 3rd Edition by Kevin Muramatsu
English | February 25, 2015 | ISBN: 1440243492 | True EPUB | 1144 pages | 161 MB
Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings 3rd Edition is the definitive, one-volume resource, with more than 1,000 detailed, easy-to-understand isometric drawings with parts identification for modern and vintage handguns, rifles and shotguns.

Free Download Under the Gun: An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic by Cedric Dark, Seema Yasmin
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1421449110 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 1.4 MB
A doctor’s firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence―and how we can end this epidemic.

Free Download Under the Gun: An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic by Cedric Dark, Seema Yasmin
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1421449110 | 232 pages | EPUB | 1.77 Mb
A doctor’s firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence―and how we can end this epidemic.

Free Download Gun Crazy (BFI Film Classics) by Jim Kitses
English | June 26, 1996 | ISBN: 0851705790 | True EPUB | 96 pages | 15.5 MB
Gun Crazy is the very essence of film noir, a low-budget, high-octane thriller whose reputation has grown with every passing year since its first appearance in 1950. While its story of two doomed lovers, crashing through the small towns of the mid-West, running the gauntlet of hold-ups and shoot-outs to a bloody nemesis, owes much to the true-life tale of Bonnie and Clyde, the film achieves an intense poetry eloquently expressive of the dark side of the American Dream.

Free Download Ioan Grillo, "Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels"
English | ISBN: 1635572789 | 2021 | 400 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords." -Adam Winkler

Free Download Douglas Keeney – Gun Camera Pacific
MBI Publishing | 2004 | ISBN: 0760317585 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 107.91 MB
Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Iwo, Midway, Tokyo . . . the powerful images of Gun Camera Pacific illustrate the air war over the Pacific from the unique and dramatic point of view of gun cameras mounted on Allied aircraft. Exciting and harrowing photos put you in the cockpit as American warbirds chase down Japanese Zeros, perform torpedo runs and dive bomb attacks, and attempt to head off Kamikaze missions in mid-air. You’ll be in the middle of the action as our bombers fight through the flak and hit their targets enroute to Tokyo. The companion to Gun Camera WWII, Gun Camera Pacific contains many never-before-seen images from the missions that helped win the war.

Free Download Robert C. Stern – Big Gun Battles: Warship Duels of the Second World War
Seaforth Publishing | 2015 | ISBN: 1848321538 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 208.51 MB
The outcome of much of the naval war in World War II was decided by the torpedo or the aerial bomb, making the submarine and aircraft carrier, the new arbiters of naval conflict. Despite this, there were a surprising number of ship-to-ship engagements involving the big guns of battleships and cruisers. Big Gun Battles recounts some of the most important, technically interesting, or obscure of these gunfire duels. Covering all theatres of the naval war, the battles selected demonstrate the changing face of surface warfare under the influence of rapidly improving fire-control systems, radar, and other sensors. By 1945 big ships could open fire at great ranges with a high probability of hitting with the first salvo. This was the pinnacle of gunnery excellence, but also heralded the end of naval gunnery as a major factor in sea warfare. Facing such deadly accuracy, navies looked to longer-ranged, smarter, weapons like surface-skimming missiles and homing torpedoes.