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Artillery : an illustrated history of its impact /

"Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact charts the development of large, crew-operated battlefield weapons from the dart firers and catapults of the ancient world to the invention of gunpowder in China and its applications in medieval Europe, and from the emergence of naval and land gu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kinard, Jeff, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2007.
Colección:Weapons and warfare series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Ancient and medieval artillery
  • Early gunpowder artillery
  • The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
  • Eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century artillery
  • Nineteenth-century U.S. artillery, 1800-1865
  • Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century artillery
  • The interwar years and World War II, 1921-1945
  • Post-World War II and late-twentieth-century developments.