Author 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. He now lives in the Somme, France, where he and his wife run a small bed and breakfast, which is situated on top of the old German front line! 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. In his spare time Martin runs motorcycle tours of the battlefield. He is the author of a number of books including Out of Nowhere - A History of the Military Sniper (Osprey, 2004), The Military Sniper since 1914 (Osprey, 2001), and Firearms in the American West 1700-1900 (The Crowood Press, 2002), and he has also contributed to a number of magazines.