http://www.patreon.com/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http://shop.bbtv.com/collections/forgotten-weapons Serbia, as one of the minor powers of World War One, if usually overlooked by history books - and is especially overlooked by firearms reference books. Want to know about the M1899/07 Mauser rifles? The Koka-Djuric M1880/07 conversion of single shot 10.15mm black powder rifles to magazine-fed 7x57mm repeaters? Well, good luck! Until now, anyway. Branislav Stankovic and John Sheehan have worked together to product the first of a planned 3-volume set of books on Serbian arms of the First World War. Volume One here covers rifles, bayonets, and ammunition, and is the only English-language reference that I am aware of which provides any substantial level of detail on the progression of Serbian small arms in specific. Serbia was a small country, and lacked any substantial domestic arms production industry before WW1. As a result, it sourced its small arms from foreign factories, but was always interested in tinkering with them to get the optimal designs. For instance, their development and insistence on the 10.15x63mm cartridge in their single-shot Mauser rifles, instead of the standard German 11mm Mauser cartridge. They were also one of few European countries to recognize the value of the 7x57mm cartridge and adopt it. Unfortunately, all of this planning would become moot in late 1915, when the Serbian Army suffered strategic defeat and was forced to retreat across the mountains to the Albanian coast for evacuation, losing most of their arms along the way. The Army would regroup and prepare for a new campaign, but Serbia had no arms supplies left with which to equip them. France would take the responsibility for equipping the Serbian forces in 1916, and this book covers the Lebels and Berthiers with which Serbia fought in substantial detail. It also covers the capture Austrian Mannlichers and Russian military aid Berdan and Mosin-Nagan