Superguns 1854–1991: Extreme artillery from the Paris Gun

Superguns 1854–1991: Extreme artillery from the Paris Gun and the V-3 to Iraq's Project Babylon (New Vanguard Book 265)

Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power, from William Armstrong's 19th-century â€œmonster gunsâ€ to the latest research into hypersonic electro-magnetic railguns.

Taking a case study approach, Superguns explains the technology and role of the finest monster weapons of each era. It looks at the 1918 â€œWilhelm Gun,â€ designed to shell Paris from behind the German trenches; the World War II â€œV-3â€ gun built to bombard London across the Channel; the Cold War atomic cannons of the US and Soviet Union; and the story of Dr Gerald Bull's HARP program and the Iraqi â€œSupergunâ€ he designed for Saddam Hussein. Illustrated throughout, this is an authoritative history of the greatest and most ambitious artillery pieces of all time.

Superguns 1854–1991: Extreme artillery from the Paris Gun and the V-3 to Iraq's Project Babylon (New Vanguard Book 265)