Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare This new illustrated edition of

This new illustrated edition of Dan McCaffery's book contains more than 50 photos of Bishop and other First World War fliers including German and British air aces

The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire

soldiers lived inside the ground

This piece has been handmade by a Wisconsin artisan

earning a Military Cross for what historian Charles Bean called 'the most dramatic and effective act of individual audacity in the history of the AIF'

Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare This new illustrated edition ofDescription By Marc Romanych and Greg Heuer Paperback World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. More railway artillery pieces were used during this war than in any other conflict, even though at the start of the war none of the armies had railway guns and the very idea of railway artillery was comparatively new. The impetus to build and field railway mounted guns came from the stalemate of trench warfare. The first railway guns fielded by the