Title : The FAL Rifle Classic Edition
Author: R. Blake Sterns; Jean Van Rutten
Published by Collector's Grade Publications, 1994 /2002
3 volumes in one. Hardcover with original pictorial dust jacket. Fine binding and cover. Pages clean and unmarked. A very good condition copy.
During the Cold War, the FAL was adopted by many countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), with the notable exception of the United States. It is one of the most widely used rifles in history, having been used by more than 90 countries.[4] It received the title "the right arm of the free world" from its adoption by many countries that identified as part of the free world.
This title, The FAL Rifle, comprises all three separate volumes from the FAL Series into one book. The series starts with North American FALs, NATO's Search for a Standard Rifle followed by UK & Commonwealth FALs and the third of the series is The Metric FAL, the Free World's Right Arm. The first production model of the FAL rifle was as noted, the FAL 'Canada'. FN has introduced numerous modifications and improvements in the interveningyears, and many early FAL components are not interchangable with later models. The Metric FAL provides an illustrated guideto which parts fit what FAL, along with the complete, official BATF list of exempted (legal) 'G'-series FN FALs which were sold in the USA. The FAL Rifle concludes with a comprehensive index to all three volumes, originally published separately as The FAL Series Index by Eino Sierpe and R Blake Stevens.
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