Paris Gun The Bombardment Of Paris By The German Long-Range Guns And The Great German Offensives Of 1918 WW1 Throughout his life Pierce took

Throughout his life Pierce took to canvas to depict a variety of scenes from the World War

Before they have time to make their choice

An epic tale ranging from the ravaged fields of Flanders to the revolutionary streets of Berlin

that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life

Miller's work suggests a new interpretation and offers a new experience of an iconic moment in American military history--and in the story of the Marine Corps

Paris Gun The Bombardment Of Paris By The German Long-Range Guns And The Great German Offensives Of 1918 WW1 Throughout his life Pierce tookDescription By Henry W Miller Paperback This is the story of a unique gun called, by the Germans, the Pariskanone and mistakenly referred to by our troops as Big Bertha. The gun was 210mm calibre with a barrel length of 130 feet, an overall weight of 142 tons and a maximum range of about 80 miles. It was designed to fire on Paris bringing alarm and despondency to a population which, though subject to air bombardment had no reason to suppose they were