The Illustrated History of Weaponry
Subtitle: From Flint Axes to Automatic Weapons
Edition: 1st American Ed edition
Publisher: Hylas Publishing
Published: September 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781592581276
Subjects: Weapons & equipment; Military History (General); Personal Weapons (Military Science); History; History - Military / War; Military; Military - Pictorial; Military - Weapons; History / Military / Weapons; Berman Museum (Anniston, Ala.); Catalogs; Weapons
Table of contents: title: Stone weapons -- The Bronze Age -- Weapons of the Americas & Australasia -- Bows & crossbows -- Feature: the Hundred Years War -- Maces & flails --Feature: the crusades -- Pole arms & axes -- Armor -- Daggers & fighting knives -- Feature: the introduction of gunpowder -- The first firearms: from handcannon to flintlock -- From matchlock to flintlock -- The flintlock pistol -- The European sword -- Swords of Asia & Africa -- Dueling pistols -- The blunderbuss -- Feature: naval weapons -- Weapons of the Napoleonic War -- From flintlock to percussion caps -- The nineteenth-century sword -- Pepperboxes & derringers -- Colt’s revolvers -- Colt’s competitors -- Feature: the U.S. Civil War -- Union weapons of the Civil War -- Confederate weapons of the Civil War -- Weapons of the American west -- Bolt-action rifles -- The automatic pistol -- Personal defense weapons -- Combination weapons -- Feature: alarm, trap, and special-purpose guns -- Edged weapons -- Pistols -- Infantry rifles -- Machine guns -- Feature: trench warfare -- Guns of the U.S. Roaring twenties -- Edged weapons of World War II -- Axis pistols -- Allied pistols -- Rifles -- Ceremonial weapons -- Machine guns -- Submachine guns -- Specialized weapons -- Weapons of espionage -- Feature: germ warfare -- Weapons after the world wars.