World War I Armaments and the .303 British Cartridge (Hardcover w/ DJ, 1995) NEW

Description

During the Great War, the adoption of both new and old forms of armaments for the British services occasioned the development of special patterns pf the .303-inch British service cartridge for use with such specialist ordnance.
The newly introduced munitions included trench mortars, grenades, howitzers, heavy field artillery, and tanks, together with necessary ancillary items such as mortar bombs, fuzes and artillery percussion locks.
This work describes in broad outline some of the above armaments, and how the .303-inch round was adapted for the various applications; but it also gives details of other patterns of the cartridge developed for such special purposes as armour-piercing, balloon and zeppelin destruction, drill instruction and tracing.
"World War 1 Armaments and the .303 British Cartridge" is therefore a book that covers the subject in a manner never before attempted. It is of special interest to students of military history, as well as to collectors generally.