Ian Hogg has compiled for the Greenhill Military Manuals series a new, valuable reference guide to modern ammunition. This is Ammunition: Small Arms, Grenades and Projected Munitions. A knowledge of ammunition types and specifications is vital to an understanding of the capabilities of modern weaponry, and this superb book in the Greenhill Military Manuals series serves as a concise and compact guide to what is available today, for both the professional and the general reader. A rifle without ammunition is, frankly, an expensive club; an artillery piece without ammunition a futuristic sculpture. Ammunition is the article which does the damage. To understand weapons it is therefore vital to have an understanding of their ammunition. Some types of ammunition have stayed unchanged for over a century, others change periodically as technology offers some new approach or when a new kind of target makes itself known. Ian V. Hogg's book examines ammunition in both these categories, from simple rifle cartridges to highly complex 'smart' projectiles for modern artillery, by way of grenades and mortar bombs, cannon and tank ammunition. Combining an informative text with photographs and dimensioned line drawings, this is a welcome guide to an essential aspect of weaponry and equipment and an important contribution to the authoritative Greenhill Military Manuals series. Ian V. Hogg is also the author of the following books in Greenhill's expanding range of military manuals: Counter-Terrorism Equipment Infantry Support Weapons Small Arms The World's Sniping Rifles Each volume is a superb guide to military equipment and gives international coverage of what is available, what is reliable and what is state of the art. Ian V. Hogg fought in the Korean War and is an expert on modern military weapons. He is a renowned and respected author on the subject with numerous books to his credit, including German Artillery of World War II and the forthcoming German Secret Weapons of the Second World War. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 85 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com