Simply put, this book was fairly amazing.
Who would have thought you could read a whole book about Rifles and find it interesting from beginning to end.

from the origin of the musket, the riffling process where its name comes from, to the historical movements influenced by its use..

this reads like a meandering plotline with no standardized characters.

it was very rare when i felt like i was slogging through a text book, and more often like i was watching a well written history channel segment.. minus the commercials of course :)

-FTC douche-claimer-