Customer Rating: Summary: Very Interesting Study of a Very Obscure Item. Comment: The previous reviewer has gone into the technical aspects of the subject. I shall discuss the book itself.
John W. Brunner has been a college professor for many years and is quite familiar with the craft of research. This study is based on documention in the US National Archives. (For a detailed discussion of the socuments see my review of the author's OSS Weapona)
The book is now in high demand in the after market and brings a premium price.
For most it will be interesting reading but it ia so specialized that few collectors will need it. And who has one of these bows anyway? ;o) Customer Rating: Summary: The way to change the good old things...in something better! Comment: This is the most fascinating book I ever read on Crossbows. Being a collector of Crossbows & other light weapons, a hunter and shooter, I always fell that Crossbows are funny and efficient, trully lethal weapons. But they are cumbersome, heavy, and almost impossible to build in a home-workshop. With the historical and practical knowledge gathered thru this fascinating book, we can create our own advanced Crossbow-type weapons, much cheaper and as accurate and deadly as the bow-and-string traditional ones. Using rubber-bands and simple (but trully hi-tech) solutions to the "problems" of the amazing Crossbow, we find, in this wonderfull book, a marvelous view of how the good old things can be changed to become something better, indeed much better! I know you'll love this book, as much as I love it. I'm a published author, too, and this book is one I wish I have writen... I love this book so much that I give ten, as gifts, to friends that like Crossbows, too, and all them loved it. Buy it. You won't get disapointed, I'm sure.
