SMOOTHBORE ORDNANCE JOURNAL VOLUME 9
Code: SOJ09
Price: £20
Category(s): New Books, Our Publications, Fortification,
104pp., 4to, fully illus., P.B. 2015. This issue has five themes: Field Siege Artillery in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and the first example of aerial combat during the Siege of Paris, 1870; Rifled Muzzle Loaders of the French La Hitte System, the Austrian M1863 Lenk system and other European RMLs; Prussian Krupp Rifled Breech Loading Field Guns (1859-80); Russian Krupp Rifled Breech Loading Ordnance; Spanish Smoothbore Field Ordnance (1827-1861), M1859 Muzzle Loading Rifled Artillery, Spanish Krupp Steel and Compressed Bronze Breech Loading Rifle Cannon.