Weapon
Subtitle: A Visual History of Arms and Armor
Publisher: DK ADULT
Published: October 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780756622107
Subjects: Personal Weapons (Military Science); History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Weapons; History / Military / General; Military - General; Military weapons
Description: From the Publisher: For 4,000 years weapons, and the warriors who used them, have acted as the cutting edge of history, using ax, spear, bow, sword, gun, and cannon to determine the rise of kingdoms and the fall of empires. From the stone axes of the earliest warfare to the heavy artillery of today's modern armies, this awe-inspiring book portrays for the first time the entire spectrum of weaponry.