Superguns 1854-1991 - Steve Zaloga

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 "monster
guns" 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 "Wilhelm Gun," designed to shell Paris from behind the German
trenches; the World War II "V-3" 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 "Supergun" he designed
for Saddam Hussein. Illustrated throughout, this is an authoritative history
of the greatest and most ambitious artillery pieces of all time.