Weapons of WarCrowell, 1968 - Всего страниц: 224 "The story of man as warrior from the first Stone Age man with his wooden club to modern man with his proverbial "push button" is told h ere through a precise and illuminating survey of the development of weaponry"--Jacket excerpt. |
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... known to the Ancients by a variety of names and described by them in a manner which is often tantalisingly vague and confusing . However , it would appear ( if only because the Carthaginians are said to have surren- dered two thousand ...
... known to the Ancients by a variety of names and described by them in a manner which is often tantalisingly vague and confusing . However , it would appear ( if only because the Carthaginians are said to have surren- dered two thousand ...
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... known also as nitre or potassium nitrate , is not widely to be found in nature , though on occasion it exists ( as an inadvertent man - made product ) in the form of an incrustation on the ground , usually in hot countries in the ...
... known also as nitre or potassium nitrate , is not widely to be found in nature , though on occasion it exists ( as an inadvertent man - made product ) in the form of an incrustation on the ground , usually in hot countries in the ...
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... known explosive , provided an un- suspecting world with a whole series of novel and much more powerful propellants . It was in March , 1846 , that the German chemist C. F. Schöenbein , at a meeting of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft ...
... known explosive , provided an un- suspecting world with a whole series of novel and much more powerful propellants . It was in March , 1846 , that the German chemist C. F. Schöenbein , at a meeting of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft ...
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Acknowledgements | 13 |
Bloodshed and Bronze | 28 |
Metal from Heaven | 52 |
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