Buy the book at cornellpubs.com: A Basic Manual of Military Small Arms 1951, Small Arms of the World, WHB Smith

This big book is a military manual from 1951 that describes and compares the design and operation of small arms from various countries, including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, and many more.

If you have ever wondered about the arms carried by armies form around the globe, this is the book for you, a fascinating bible of common and obscure weapons, rifles, machine guns, pistols, revolvers and more.

The manual provides detailed illustrations and instructions for field stripping, which is the disassembly and reassembly of ...