The Machinery of War: An Illustrated History of Weapons By Peter Young

The Machinery of War: An Illustrated History of Weapons By Peter Young

Hardcover

ISBN 0246105909

Publisher: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd 1973

Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The Dust
Jacket has some very limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.

The Machinery Of War clarifies and documents a fascinating sequence of archer versus hoplite, of heavy cavalry destroying infantry, of infantry replying with the pike, the advent of gunpowder wars, the developing pattern of siegecraft, the numerous permutations of horse, foot and guns and the great industrial leaps forward which then created for example, machine guns and massive breech-loaders, flamethrowers and tanks. New drawings and specially annotated photographs illuminate for the general reader the arsenals of the past. Altogether The Machinery Of War contains over 150 illustrations, many of them in full colour.