The Greenhill Military Manuals continue to be successful, and the latest addition to the series will be Modern Machine-Guns by John Walter This authoritative and superbly illustrated new book is a concise guide to the machine-gun. After tracing the rise of the weapon and its rapid development, John Walter presents a detailed directory of the key models and variants produced after 1945 and provides detailed statistical data and evaluation reports. This comprehensive directory, by a leading firearms expert and authority on military technology, covers a vast array of weapons from the Gatling gun to the six-barrel Vulcan. In addition to outlining the history of each type and its development, this up-to-date guide cites the calibre, ammunition, length, weight, feed, rate of fire and muzzle velocity of every weapon. The book covers machine-guns and variants manufactured in more than thirty countries, including Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia, Yugoslavia, China, Italy, Israel and Czechoslovakia. Greenhill Military Manuals are a new generation of military equipment books, packed with fully illustrated information for those who need to know about the world's fighting forces. Books in the Greenhill Military Manuals are being published in Polish, German and (recently arranged) Russian editions. The complete series is: Ammunition by Ian V. Hogg Arms and Equipment of Special Forces by Will Fowler Artillery by T. J. O'Malley Close Air Support by Michael J. H. Taylor Counter-Terrorism Equipment by Ian V. Hogg Fighting Vehicles by T. J. O'Malley Infantry Support Weapons by Ian V. Hogg Kalashnikov by John Walter Military Transport by T. J. O'Malley Modern Battle Tanks and Support Vehicles by Alan K. Russell Modern Machine-Guns by John Walter Small Arms by Ian V. Hogg The World's Sniping Rifles by Ian V. Hogg Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 99 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 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