Hardback book - The Martini Henry for Queen and Empire - Collectors Edition by Neil Aspinshaw.
Luxurious Claret Leather Bound, individually limited edition numbered <200 and signed by the Author.
In October 1874, The Martini Henry Rifle was finally issued to the British Army and Navy, being hailed at the time as being the most perfect rifle of its age. However, Never before was a service rifle to be subjected to such a baptism of fire that the Martini rifle was to endure; battling not the European enemy it had primarily been designed to fight, but foes who’s methods and tactics we honed in a different millennia.
This long awaited book is THE complete History of the British Military Martini Henry rifle and Carbine in all its many variants and from 1869 to 1903. The book begins at the 1860’s trials and continues the story to the new century and beyond. It covers every Mark of rifle and carbine, from the .450 trials rifles to the .577/450", the .402" and the .303 variants, the Bayonets, the Ammunition, the folk lore and the failed projects, Covered in depth are the manufacturers and production of the rifle, the politics, the battles and the men that were to be forever linked in its story.
256 luxurious full colour pages, embellished with 260 photographs and 156,000 words, Author Neil Aspinshaw has attracted rave reviews in the NRA Magazine of America for his lively an thoroughly absorbing study into The weapon that forged an Empire, reaching new heights in hitherto unpublished research, information and understanding into one of the most talked about and lauded rifles of Queen Victoria’s reign.
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