A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware

First edition. 566pp. In green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Small 4to. . Boards very slightly rounded at spine tips. Some minor warping on front free endpaper, and an ownership stamp, with classification and accession numbers, on the title page indicating the volume was once in the library of the Ministry of Defence. In its original dust jacket, a little rubbed on corners and spine tips, flat crease on front cover, lightly bumped at edges and some mild visible shelf wear on verso. Provides in a single volume the salient technical and operational details of all the most important weapons from the post war period to the mid 1980s, making it a goldmine of information for the professional, the general readers and the weapons 'buff'.