Guns Of The Gurkhas The Lost Arsenal: Pistols, Rifles and Machine-Guns of the Royal Nepalese Army, 1816-1945
Author:
Walter John
Year:
2005
Edition:
1st Edn
Publisher:
Tharston Press
City of Publication:
Godstone
Summary:
128 pages, 4to illustrated throughout in colour from photographs and drawings, specially bound in a green cloth binding with gilt title and crest to the upper cover, the binding of copies which were for sale were bound in a pictorial laminated cover. This copy with a presentation inscription on the title page to David Penn thanking him for "his friendly cooperation" signed by John Waller and the publishers. David Penn formerly keeper of exhibits and firearms at the Imperial War Museum, David wrote the forward for this book. A comprehensive coverage of unregaded and an unknown collection of arms. The weapons that packed the palace of Lagan Silekhanna comprise thousands of small arms. Being the military equipment of Nepal from the early 19th Century to after the second world war. ?120
Ref:
24441
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