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Martin Pegler
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Author of:
British Tommy 1914–18,
Colt Single-Action Revolvers,
The Lee-Enfield Rifle,
The Military Sniper since 1914,
Out of Nowhere,
Sharpshooting Rifles of the American Civil War,
Sniper,
Sniper Rifles,
Sniping Rifles in World War I,
Sniping Rifles on the Eastern Front 1939–45,
Soldiers’ Songs and Slang of the Great War,
The Thompson Submachine Gun,
US Cavalryman 1865–90,
The Vickers-Maxim Machine Gun,
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
Biography
Martin Pegler has a BA Hons in Medieval and Modern History and an MA in Museum Studies, both from University College, London, and was for many years the Senior Curator of Firearms at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds. Martin has established The Somme Historical Centre (www.martinpegler.com), where visitors can see the technology used in the 1914-18 trench warfare. He is currently an author and firearms consultant and he also lectures at local Great War museums.
He is the author of a number of books including The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and the highly acclaimed Out of Nowhere: A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004). In the 1980s he had the privilege of interviewing many World War I veterans about their wartime experiences, and the recordings are now part of the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum, London.