Small Arms by Chris Chant

This book is all about small arms from the World War I Era until Post-Modern Era. Written by Chris Chant, a famous guns and airplanes books writer. This gun encyclopedia-like book contains information about over 250 pistols, submachine guns, rifles, grenades and missile weaponry.
Although it has many photographs and factsheets. I felt that the factsheets is not so accurate and the some photos are not the real model of the gun itself. Also, it doesn't cover all of the gun models, just the famous models. In addition, there's something that irritate me the most is that when I saw this book depicts M4 and M16 as the same rifle type. Everyone know that these are two different type of rifles (although M4 is inherited from M16), but the writer decided to combine these assault rifles into the same category and put only one schematic photos of M16.
But overall, this book is quite detailed. Full of photographs. Also it is pretty simple for beginners who wants to know about famous guns in the world. And for the bonus, it contains some short history of the gun era and prototype guns in the future.