The World of Beretta: An International Legend

Wilson, R. L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375501495 ISBN 13: 9780375501494

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

Book by Wilson RL

Reseña del editor:

A lively chronicle of the oldest arms manufacturer in the world looks back on nearly five centuries of gun making that began in Italy with a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. 15,000 first printing.

Nota de la solapa:

ndustrial firm and the oldest gunmaker in the world, Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta, S.p.A., launches its 475th anniversary with the publication of this lavish history and celebration of a unique world of fine guns. Beretta remains under the stewardship of its founding family, headed now by Ugo Gussalli Beretta and his sons, Pietro and Franco. Today the Beretta line of firearms and accessories reigns as one of the few international brands symbolic of unsurpassed quality. But no other firm goes back so far in history, or reaches so many corners of the globe, as Beretta.

The Italian company stands supreme partly because it is on the cutting edge--of design, quality, manufacture, performance, and style. Through the centuries, the family has guided the company in the transition from specialist gun-barrel makers to, in Napoleonic times, creator of sporting firearms, later adding military and law-enforcement arms and importing arms by Colt, Remington, S&W, and Winchester, still later devel