Armament and history : the influence of armament on history from the dawn of classical warfare to the end of the Second World War
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Armament and history : the influence of armament on history from the dawn of classical warfare to the end of the Second World War
Da Capo press, 1998
1st Da Capo Press ed
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Armament & history
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"This Da Capo Press paperback edition of Armanent and History is an unabridged republication of the edition published in London in 1946"--T.p. verso
"Copyright c1945 Charles Scribner's Sons, Renewed in the name of Lloyds Bank, Ltd., 1973"--T.p. verso
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Although skill, leadership, strategy, and number of forces have been important factors in battles, armaments have played the most decisive role in determining ultimate military victory. Entranced by the power and precision of armaments, man has continuously invented faster, more accurate, and more devastating weapons, from the javelin, stone axe, sword, and the arrow to the cannon, musket, rifle, tank, super-fortress, and missile. In this study of the influence of armaments on history, J.F.C. Fuller shows how the inventive genius of man can potentially obliterate his sense of moral values and destroy civilization. Divided into armament epochs,Ages of Valour, Chivalry, Gunpowder, Steam, Oil, and Atomic Energy, Armament and History examines the most influential military innovations of each period as well as the key leaders (including Alexander, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon) who skillfully employed these weapons. Although the author acknowledges that war cannot be eliminated entirely, he urges man to impose restrictions on warfare before society descends into a second Dark Age. Completed immediately after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,chilling examples of mass destruction caused by armaments,this impassioned work remains relevant more than a half-century later.
Table of Contents
* Armament and History * The Age of Valour * The Age of Chivalry * The Age of Gunpowder * The Age of Steam * The Age of OilI * The Age of OilII * The Age of Atomic Energy
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