FROM BOMBARD TO PIAT: BRITISH SPIGOT WEAPONS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
Code: L110
Price: £19.99
Category(s): New Books, Fortification,
216pp., fully illus.in colour. 2026. The efficiency of artillery was highly dependent not just on improved production techniques but also on transport and logistics, and on increasingly lethal and destructive ammunition. It remained an auxiliary weapon for a long time until mass deployment of fast-firing, large-calibre, guns during the First World War made artillery the true queen of battlefields.