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Make All Sure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Make All Sure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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AFRICAN ARMS & ARMOR
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

AFRICAN ARMS & ARMOR

  • Categories: Art

Using eyewitness accounts of travelers and missionaries to Africa, the oral history of Africans, and the visual evidence of the weapons themselves, Spring builds a comprehensive cultural and ethnographic survey of traditional arms and armor from several centuries ago to the present.

Japanese Arms & Armour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 55

Japanese Arms & Armour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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European Weapons and Armour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

European Weapons and Armour

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The authordescribes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He show...

Arms and Armour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Arms and Armour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the 18th-19th and 20th Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

The Arms and Armour of Arabia in the 18th-19th and 20th Centuries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

In the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arab nomads who inhabited a great stretch of the Near East from Aleppo in northern Syria to the southern shores of the Arabian peninsula continued a way of life virtually unchanged from the time of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. Wars and raids were carried out by tribesmen armed like their ancestors with sword, mace and lance. Firearms came slowly to the Bedouin, and multishot weapons were very rare until the end of the 19th century.

The Archaeology of Weapons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

The Archaeology of Weapons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1960
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

The Journal of the Arms & Armour Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1970
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Arms & Armor
  • Language: en

Arms & Armor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-06-14
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  • Publisher: DK Children

A photo essay examining the design, construction, and uses of hand weapons and armor from a Stone Age axe to the revolvers and rifles of the Wild West.

A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 705

A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor

DIVIndispensable resource employs alphabetized, easy-to-use format. Arquebuses, flintlocks, and other antique guns appear here, along with German armor, Roman short swords, Turkish crossbows, much more. Over 4,500 individual photos and drawings, 875 detailed figures. /div