Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare This piece has been handmade

This piece has been handmade by a Wisconsin artisan

who leave their farm in New Jersey to join up

The century since the end of the Napoleonic wars had been the most peaceful era Europe had known since the fall of the Roman Empire

earning a Military Cross for what historian Charles Bean called 'the most dramatic and effective act of individual audacity in the history of the AIF'

She was sentenced to the firing squad and only survived due to the Iron Cross honour received as a result of her earlier medical service

Railway Guns of World War I Naval Warfare This piece has been handmadeDescription By Marc Romanych and Greg Heuer Paperback World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. More railway artillery pieces were used during this war than in any other conflict, even though at the start of the war none of the armies had railway guns and the very idea of railway artillery was comparatively new. The impetus to build and field railway mounted guns came from the stalemate of trench warfare. The first railway guns fielded by the