C H B Pridham (54 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Lewis Gun Mechanism Made Easy: With Notes on the 300 (American) Lewis Gun. Book.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Anti-Aircrafft Defence Against Low-Flying Enemy Aircraft: A Handbook for Light Machine Gunners, Including Particulars of Notable Successes in Recent F. Book.

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Condition: Good. 1949. 1st Printing. 256 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 48 pages. 8.20x4.90x0.40 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. 2008 N & M Press reprint of 1940 original Edition . SB. 20pp + large colour plate and numerous diagrams The US-made Lewis gun, with its distinctive circular ammunition drums, replaced the VIckers as the standard British Army machine gun in the First World War. This 1941 reprint of a manual first published in January 1919 shows that the versatile Lewis was still a popular and effective weapon twenty years later. Written by a former Officer-Instructor at the Army's School of Musketry at Hythe in Kent, the booklet describes the correct loading and unloading of the gun; the action of the firing mechanism; the magazine; the action of gases and the cooling system and notes on how to deal with jams and stoppages. Book.…

Condition: New. 2009. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with no dust jacket. First edition, 1st printing. EX-Lib. Copy. Spine and top edges of the boards are sunned but the lettering is still legible. Corners and spine extremeties are bumped. Small mark on rear board. Dark rubbing to page edges. Library stamps on spine. Endpapers and title page have library markings. Library pocket on rear pastedown. Solid copy with cosmetic flaws. ; B&W Photographs; 24D; 8-1/2 x 5-3/4"; 256 pages. …

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Condition: New. SB 19 pp. Photographs & line drawings 2016 N&MP Reprint of 1941 Original Edition A slim official handbook of 1941, written for the light machine gunner faced with the low-level attack. The Luftwaffe's ground-strafing runs had been a feature of the fighting in France and Norway the year before, and every unit, ship and airfield was expected to put up fire against them with whatever it had. This booklet sets out how.Beyond the drills it gathers particulars of notable successes in recent fighting, by land and sea, so that gunners could see the thing had been done and how. Photographs and line drawings illustrate the aircraft to expect, the angles of approach and the aiming allowances needed against a fast, low target.Nineteen pages, and useful now for what it shows of British air defence doctrine at unit level in the second year of the war, and of the confidence the army was trying to instil in men armed with nothing heavier than a Bren. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 32 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.08 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: New. 2016. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Sub-titled 'a handbook for Light Machine-Gunners' and illustrated with photographs and diagrams, this book told its Second World War readers how to make the best of their light weaponry when fighting off attacks by low flying enemy aircraft.

Mint paperback reprint of a 1946 publication. 162pp.: An interesting and engrossing history of rifles and machine guns first published in 1945. The book is of particular interest because of the coverage of the early use of machine guns, particularly in the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. It covers the First and Second World Wars and is a good analysis of how superiority of fire could be achieved and maintained. …