This is the companion book to Gluckman's book on U.S. Martial Pistols. It's style is identical to the pistol book, and this book has the same stong and weak points.
Of particular interest to the student of U.S. cavalry, this book details nearly all, if not all, the carbines ever used by the cavalry no matter how small the allotment may have been. The photographic plates allow the reader to see what the carbines actually looked like. The book also includes the various rifles purchased for testing during the late 1800s, many of which were issued in small numbers for field trials.
The book concludes with the M1 Garand and the M1A1 carbine.
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