Artillery : an illustrated history of its impact

Artillery : an illustrated history of its impact / Jeff Kinard.

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kinard, Jeff, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2007.
Series:Weapons and warfare series.
Subjects:
Artillery > History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Artillery
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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