Автор: J. R. Partington
Издательство: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Год: 1998
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 422
Размер: 26,61 Мб
Язык: английский
For nearly 600 years, from the battles of the early fourteenth century to the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, firearms derived from gunpowder and other chemicals defined the frightful extent of war. The apparatus and materials used in World War I would have been familiar to our remote ancestors.