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'The Austrian 12-inch Siege Howitzer', First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). 'The 30.5cm siege howitzer...is one of the most terrible engines of destruction used in the Great War...It is manufactured at the Skoda works in Bohemia...and fires a shell weighing over 1000 pounds'. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume I, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]