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Combines historical engravings, diagrams and artwork with an engaging modern text to create a visual study of humankinds extraordinary capacity for ingenuity in inventing new ways to wage war. This work interjects the history of military hardware with diagrams of tactics and famous battles.
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Combining beautiful nineteenth-century engravings, artwork and diagrams with an engaging and informative modern art, The Worldwide History of Warface narrates humankind's tireless capacity for devising new ways of waging war on land and at sea.A chronological and cultural review of tactics and technology is supplemented by thumbnail studies of individual items of arms and armour - from swords to seige engines, from helmets to handguns.Navigational features include index tabs, cross-references and timelines, helping the reader to explore the history of warfare from ancient times to the first truly modern war.
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