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Author(s): Nelson H. Lawry
The United States put armed naval landing parties ashore in numerous countries across the world in the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century.
Specially designed light field guns carried aboard gunboats and larger warships sometimes supported the bluejackets and marines, usually when larger parties more likely to face sharp actions went ashore.
This book chronicles the history and characteristics of every model of US Navy landing gun produced between 1850 and 1942, offering a thorough and scholarly account of ordnance development in an age of swashbuckling military adventure.
| BOOK ISBN | 9781625450821 |
| FORMAT | 248 x 172 mm |
| BINDING | Hardback |
| PAGES | 320 pages |
| PUBLICATION DATE | May 2024 |
| TERRITORY | World |
| ILLUSTRATIONS | 160 illustrations |
Nelson H. Lawry holds a PhD in cell biology from the City University of New York. Thereafter he received a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research at the University of Rochester. Winner of the the 1993 John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism, Lawry has been a columnist for two newspapers, writing on local history, the history of technology, and the freshwater environment. He has researched and written extensively on American and British harbor defense and coast artillery.
