European Weapons and Armour
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Author: Ewart Oakshott
ISBN: 978-1-84383-720-6
Format: PB
Extent: 228 pp.
Price: £17.99
Publication: April 2012
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
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Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. 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.
24 colour and 115 line illustrations
Posted: junio 21st, 2012 under Libros Académicos del Mes.
Tags: Boydell & Brewer, European armour, European weapons, Ewart Oakshott, Sword
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