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Railway Guns

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Railway Guns

By John Goodwin

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About the book

In the nineteenth century the War Office showed little interest in developing large heavy artillery for its land forces, preferring instead to equip its warships with the biggest guns. Private initiatives to mount a gun on a railway truck pulled by a steam engine were demonstrated before military chiefs in the Southern Counties, but not taken up. However, the development of longer-range guns, weighing up to 250 tons, to smash through the massive armies and trench systems on the Western Front in ...Show more

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ISBN

9781473854116

Publisher

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Railway Guns

Format

Hardcover

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